Waking up on the wrong side of the bed from time to time is inevitable. Those of us who are not morning people \u2014 and never will be! \u2014 can take solace in the facts that even the most insufferably cheery morning person has a bad day.<\/p>\n
Now, scientific research has proven a reliable way to elevate one\u2019s mood and shake off a bad start: waking up on the side of the bed closest to the dab rig and kicking things off with some cannabis, a\u00a0recently published daily report study suggests.<\/a><\/p>\n Researchers led by\u00a0Maria Testa, a senior research scientist at the University at Buffalo\u2019s Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions<\/a>, asked 183 heterosexual couples \u2014 in which at least one partner used cannabis at least twice a week \u2014 to log their daily cannabis use activity for 30 consecutive days and to specifically record in their journal an \u201cevent-triggered report every time they were about to use cannabis\u201d and again \u201cimmediately after they finished.\u201d<\/p>\n The study\u2019s aim was to determine whether a user\u2019s morning mood, their \u201cpositive or negative affect,\u201d influenced their cannabis use.<\/p>\n The couples were asked to record their feelings pre- and post-consumption (with one of 11 options including \u201cirritable,\u201d \u201cstressed out,\u201d \u201canxious\/nervous\u201d); what effects their partners\u2019 use had on their feelings or propensity to use, if any; and their overall \u201cpositive\u201d and \u201chostile\u201d affects.<\/p>\n Among researchers\u2019 assumptions entering the study is the notion, common in substance-use and addiction research, that humans pursue substance use as a technique of \u201creducing their psychological discomfort.\u201d (Anyone who greets the day with a squinty-eyed grimace relieved only by the first cup of coffee can relate.)<\/p>\n Researchers found that a lower-than-normal morning mood did make cannabis use later that day more likely, but showed that neither anxiety nor hostility in the morning had much impact. Research subjects were more likely to use cannabis if their partner also used.<\/p>\n \u201cFor both men and women, the likelihood of using cannabis on a given day was greater when morning positive affect was lower than one\u2019s average, suggesting that people may use the drug to restore positive affect to more typical levels,\u201d the researchers wrote. \u201cHowever, results do not provide convincing support for the self-medication hypothesis because neither hostile nor anxious mood contributed to later cannabis use.\u201d<\/p>\n And the results of that cannabis use seemed to be mostly positive \u2014 at least when considering positive feelings. Cannabis increased \u201cpositive affect\u201d and decreased \u201chostile and anxious affect,\u201d the researchers found, a phenomenon \u201cidentical for men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n While allowing that \u201cwe cannot state unequivocally\u201d that improved moods were directly related to cannabis use and not \u201cnaturally occurring diurnal patterns,\u201d the \u201cpositive consequences\u201d of cannabis use \u201cprobably reflect the immediate \u2018good drug\u2019 feelings associated with cannabis,\u201d the researchers added. Meaning: Smoking weed does indeed appear to make the smoker feel good. Whether or not it\u2019s the cannabis or feelings associated with the cannabis probably don\u2019t matter much at the moment.<\/p>\n The findings were published in the August edition of the journal\u00a0Addictive Behaviors<\/em>. Among the study\u2019s limitations is a lack of control on what kind of cannabis was used and how much. There is a difference between dabbing<\/a> an enormous glob in the morning and taking a few hits of 1:1 CBD:THC before jumping in the shower \u2014 although maybe for the individual users, the end effect is similar.<\/p>\n Does this mean you should use cannabis if you wake up in a sh*t mood? That\u2019s entirely up to you and it is entirely possible that your negative affect may be entirely unrelated to your cannabis use. But if you do start the day on the wrong foot and do use cannabis at some point throughout the day, there\u2019s at least some explanation for the satisfied and beatific smile you make find yourself wearing later on. Cannabis certainly appears to make other people feel better; why not you?<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, do you use cannabis in the morning?<\/p>\n The post Study: Morning Cannabis Use Makes You Feel Good<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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