Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to another AMA episode, another Ask Me Anything episode,

and the brilliant, the dazzling, the lively, the sparkling, the glimmering, glittering,

shining smart, twinkling, individual who is asking me the anything part of that is of course the wonderful Dr. Ety Ben Simone Ety, welcome back.

Hi everyone, great to be back.

So let's just dive straight in.

As the kids say, hit me up with the first question.

I'll hit you up. the first question. I'll hit you up.

The first question is about cannabis.

What is the intersection between cannabis and sleep health?

It's right.

You wanted to dive in.

We're diving in. Okay. Talk about a third rail lightning rod topic

You know what? It's a timely question. I get asked this question a huge amount Why don't I do this? Because here in the

AMA I'm going to try and get through more questions because I've been

dawdling my way through all of these so far and we usually get like two or three questions at best.

I'm going to try to move through these questions quicker so you get more bang for your

book in terms of time investment. So let me give you the high-level contours and sort of key messages here because that way I will

give people the information and then don't worry I will go into greater depth in more detailed standard episodes.

And really this is me going to focus on THC, which is the principal psychoactive component of cannabis.

It's the thing that gets you high and it's the thing that most people will target and

use and historically have used when it comes to sleep.

So really this is, yes, cannabis, but it's probably more THC info specific and I will speak

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