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Sleep quality
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Cannabinoids cut insomnia severity and added 34 minutes of sleep across 10 trials
A Sleep Medicine meta-analysis pooled 10 randomized trials and 2,134 people. Cannabinoids improved insomnia severity, sleep quality, total sleep time and efficiency against placebo or melatonin. Side effects were four times more common.
Aug 26, 2026
Acupuncture and massage moved insomnia by the same amount in advanced cancer
234 people with advanced cancer and insomnia got ten weeks of acupuncture or massage. Both improved by about 3.85 points on a 28-point scale. Neither arm was a placebo, so what the needles or the hands added is unknown.
Aug 24, 2026
A THC pill cut PTSD nightmares in a 171-person trial
A Nature Medicine trial gave 171 adults with PTSD either dronabinol or placebo nightly for ten weeks. Nightmares improved more on the drug. Seven serious adverse events occurred in that group and none on placebo.
Aug 17, 2026
One all-nighter hit driving harder than four short nights
A trial in SLEEP put the same 20 men through a night with no sleep, four nights of two hours less, and normal sleep, then a simulated dawn commute. The all-nighter degraded lane control within minutes. The gradual loss barely showed.
Aug 9, 2026