INVESTIGATOR: Sean Drummond, Ph.D. STUDY LOCATION: University of California, San Diego PROJECT TITLE: Sleep and Medicinal Cannabis PROJECT TYPE: Clinical Study, Sub-Study STATUS: COMPLETE RESULTS: The full results of this study are in preparation. No preliminary results are available at this time ABSTRACT: Recently, there has been renewed scientific interest in examining the medical efficacy of cannabis in specific patient populations. For, example, both the Institute of Medicine and the NIH recently reported medicinal cannabis might be useful in the treatment of pain in HIV+ patients. HIV+ patients experience a number of clinical sequelae to the infection, even when they are otherwise considered clinically "asymptomatic." Perhaps one of the earliest sequelae is sleep abnormality. It is estimated that 73% to 90% of HIV+ patients experience significantly disrupted sleep and sleep quality has been shown to predict long-term outcome in HIV+ patients. This study