Using Marijuana to Treat Insomnia

It seems like nearly every flat surface in Terry’s home is inhabited by crotchet doilies of varying circular shapes and sizes. One of the decorative knits by her bedside, not immediately discernible at first glance, is in the shape of a seven-point plant that looks conspicuously like a cannabis leaf. Near it sits a digital alarm clock playing “The Surf of the Pacific Shores” CD on repeat. Terry says it was a Christmas gift from a friend who knows she suffers from chronic sleeplessness.

“I sometimes play it all night long,” says the 64-year-old mother of three and grandmother of seven from Chattanooga, Tennessee. “It really helps me relax.”

Right beside the knitted leaf doily and CD player sits a full, unopened bottle of ZzzQuil.

“It’s sometimes a godsend,” she says, about the medicine that at times helps her sleep when she’s at her wits end.

Terry, of course, isn’t...

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