17. You’ll Sleep Better
Weed can help you sleep better in two important ways.
The first is that it helps people fall asleep. This makes weed a good treatment for insomnia.
But the story doesn’t end there. After you’re asleep, cannabis actually helps you get longer periods of deep sleep.
And since deep sleep is associated with a number of physical and mental health benefits, getting more deep sleep can be a powerful thing.
The researchers who discovered all this also added a little caveat. At the same time that smoking weed helps you fall asleep better and get longer periods of deep sleep, it also decreases the time you spend in the REM phase.