Marijuana affects sleep, with the increased legalization and its medical use, some individuals use the drug to treat insomnia and sleeping disorders.
If an individual frequently uses marijuana, the drug might not help him get sleep hence worsening sleep quality. Marijuana is frequently used by patients as a sleep aid and they typically report subjective benefits from marijuana with regard to getting sleep and staying asleep.
Sleep has five stages and marijuana when used has an effect on both the five stages. Marijuana can change the intensity and duration of these five stages. At the first stage normally lasts for about ten minutes, if an individual has this stage might take long but if he/she smokes he can be relieved by feeling. This is a positive impact at this stage.
The second stage of sleep is light and a person could wake up very easily, but marijuana has a little impact on it. In the third stage and the fourth stage and marijuana prolongs this stages.
During the fifth stage at which dreaming occurs, use of marijuana decreases REM sleep. A frequent marijuana user has lower chances of dreaming, this is by the fact that marijuana has dopamine.