Is Cannabis Your Sleeping Pill

2009.05.03

Insomnia is divided into three main categories, depending on symptoms, and they are transient, acute and chronic. With transient, you are sleepless for a shorter period of one day to a week. With acute you are sleepless for one to three weeks, and the third is chronic where you are sleepless for anywhere between one month to many months in a row.

There is a wrong idea about insomnia and that is that it is a disease, but it isn’t, it is a symptom of sleeplessness from either not getting proper sleep, not getting sleep immediately after going to bed, or getting sleep for short periods only, and unable to fall asleep after interruption – these are just some of the symptoms of insomnia.

Insomnia may be caused by many things like excessive intake of toxicants like caffeine, fear, medications, anxiety or stress from mental tension. Excessive physical work or pain may also cause insomnia or sleep disorders. These guidelines may help you understand the basic causes and effects of insomnia.

Interruption of breathing is also called sleep apnea. It is a medical term that means you experience interruption in breathing, and, as a result of this interruption you have your sleep cycle disturbed. This happens when there is a partial collapse of the respiratory track muscle tone.

The most common cause of insomnia is stress – stress from work, family problems, or whatever you may be experiencing that keeps you concerned enough that you can’t sleep. With me, I feel tired enough to go to bed and turn off the light and feel drowsy for about thirty seconds after it’s dark – and then it starts – I start trying to think about that presentation that is coming up soon, or what to say to some who might raise a question, and then how to respond do that I look like I know what I’m doing, and on and on, until I’ve noticed that three hours have gone by.

So what do you do to stop it/ Oh, there are a million and one home remedies and not so home prescription remedies around, and one of them happens to be marijuana, or, if you like the scientific term, cannabis sativa. Now, I was told that I might have an allergy to marijuana, because of the reaction I used to get after smoking it, but when I tried the tea, (don’t tell anyone it’s illegal), I had a very gentle, restful sleep, with no side effects whatsoever, and I didn’t feel like I had to have to every night just to sleep either.
I don’t take well to prescription medicine, and I have talked to people who take it, but when they wake up after a sleeping pill, they almost need a tow truck to get them out of bed, and they found they had to have stimulant to get going. So, you do what’s best for you, but, for me, I like the cannabis tea.