Hi there it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast and welcome to an episode or in fact series of episodes that I know so many of you have been asking for the

episodes on sleep, cannabis, THC and CBD. THC and CBD. Let's get started. If you admit to being a sleep scientist, which on

transatlantic flights I try not to do because you are then stuck

answering questions from rows 22 on back and from rows 21 through 8 up to the front of that fancy

curtain for the next 10 hours but anyway if you do admit to that I get asked no shortage of

wonderfully interesting questions and I love to talk about sleep I absolutely

don't perhaps just not for 10 hours straight when I'm trying to get some sleep but

one of the most frequent questions I get asked is this

does cannabis quote-unquote help my sleep and it does seem to do that for me but I saw on

social media that this may not be a good thing. What do you think? My reply is usually

desperately annoying to them. It's complicated. Let's explain why it's complicated and let me start with maybe your connection to

cannabis you may not partake in cannabis or its principal derivatives by the way, the first of which is tetrah hydro-canabanol or THC for short and canabodylodial, which is CBD for short.

Yet it's likely that if you don't,

you are still nevertheless acquainted with someone who very much does.

I always get that question.

I'm asking for a friend.

Mm-hmm.

And before I go any further, I really want to be genuine here.

Please understand this episode of this series of episodes and myself included

no stage for casting any judgment on the use of recreational substances.

My pejorative here in terms of some of the descriptions regarding the use of cannabis and THC when it comes to sleep

are simply referring to the science of sleep that is interwoven with these chemical narratives in terms of what they do to your

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