Cannabis Association With Sleep Study

Who can take part

• fluent in English
• 18.5<BMI<40 kg/m2
• no shift work in the last 12 months
• no travel across time zones in the last 2 months

Who cannot take part

• Chronic disease-Medical history/prior diagnosis of the following:
• Drug/Alcohol use criteria:
• Illicit drugs apart from cannabis or related products are prohibitive
• Use of prescription or over-the-counter medications or supplements that affect sleep are also exclusionary
• Prior Shift Work:
• Volunteers must have no history of working irregular day and night hours, regular night work, or rotating shift work for the 3 months prior to the study
• cardiometabolic disease (e.g., myocardial infarction, angina, diabetes)
• essential hypertension
• hepatic impairment
• restless legs syndrome
• neurological disease (e.g., early onset dementia)
• unstable psychiatric disorders (e.g., bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, major depression with suicidality)
• Participants who consume >14 alcoholic drinks/week and/or have a diagnosis (or history) of alcohol use disorder will be excluded (a toxicological urine screen will be conducted to verify reported non-use during the initial screening and on the day of admission to the in-laboratory portion of the study)
• severe obstructive sleep apnea
• parasomnia
• Volunteers may consume caffeine, however, >3 cups of coffee (or otherwise equivalent of >300mg/day) is prohibitive
• Contraceptives are required for women and will continue to be taken throughout the experiment