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Medical Cannabis Benefits for Insomnia Remain Uncertain, Cochrane Review Finds

The review found little to no meaningful sleep benefit and rated the evidence very low to low because of bias, small samples and inconsistent results.

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A new Cochrane review finds that existing evidence is too uncertain to determine whether medical cannabis improves sleep or daytime functioning in people with insomnia.

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Medical cannabis may do little or nothing for people with insomnia. This is what researchers say after comparing 9 studies. That is not certain, however: the evidence is simply too thin to draw firm conclusions. Cannabis oil or CBD drops to combat insomnia are increasingly popular. More than 130,000 Dutch people use cannabis to [...] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.

·Middelharnis, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Medical Xpress broke the news in Douglas, United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
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