%0 Journal Article %A Calvin Diep %A Chenchen Tian %A Kathak Vachhani %A Christine Won %A Duminda N Wijeysundera %A Hance Clarke %A Mandeep Singh %A Karim S Ladha %T Recent cannabis use and nightly sleep duration in adults: a population analysis of the NHANES from 2005 to 2018 %D 2021 %R 10.1136/rapm-2021-103161 %J Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine %P rapm-2021-103161 %X Background While popularly consumed for its perceived benefits as a sleeping aid, the impact of cannabis on sleep-wake regulation in clinical studies is inconclusive. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between cannabis use and nightly sleep duration in a nationally representative dataset.Methods A cross-sectional analysis of adults was undertaken using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from 2005 to 2018. Respondents were dichotomized as recent users or non-users if they had used or not used cannabis in the past 30 days, respectively. The primary outcome was nightly sleep duration, categorized as short (<6 hours), optimal (6–9 hours), and long (>9 hours). Multinomial logistic regression was used to adjust for sociodemographic and health-related covariates, and survey sample weights were used in modeling.Results From a sample representing approximately 146 million adults in the USA, 14.5% reported recent cannabis use. In an adjusted analysis, recent users were more likely than non-users to report both short sleep (OR 1.34, 95% CI 1.12 to 1.59, p<0.001) and long sleep (OR 1.56, 95% CI 1.25 to 1.96, p<0.001). Heavy users (≥20 of the past 30 days) were even more likely to be at the extremes of nightly sleep duration.Discussion Recent cannabis use was associated with the extremes of nightly sleep duration in a nationally representative sample of adults, with suggestions of a dose–response relationship. Our findings highlight the need to further characterize the sleep health of regular cannabis users in the population.Data are available in a public, open access repository. Data are available on reasonable request. All data for this study and tutorials to access the data are publicly available at https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/. %U https://rapm.bmj.com/content/rapm/early/2021/11/24/rapm-2021-103161.full.pdf