Cannabis may help people get to sleep quicker, but evidence suggests it interferes with deep REM sleep.
Ariana Eunjung Cha
Larry Mitchell never thought much about the dreams he wasn’t having.
For years, while he regularly smoked cannabis, his dreams seemed to disappear. Then, last summer, he quit. Soon afterward, his nights became populated by a vivid nocturnal world unlike anything he had experienced before.
There was the dream in which he was driving his old green 1985 Lincoln - with its white leather seats - alongside his dead cousin, listening to C-Bo. Another found him sitting on the steps outside a club talking with friends. And then there were the sex dreams.
