6 in 10 Americans Don’t Get Enough Sleep

Over 100 million Americans say they’re not getting enough sleep. Melatonin sales have exploded. Prescriptions for sleep meds keep climbing. The “put your phone down and go to bed earlier” advice keeps circulating. And yet the numbers keep getting worse.

Maybe the thing you're taking to fix your sleep is part of the reason it's not working.

Melatonin Isn’t a Sleep Aid…

Here’s what most people get wrong: melatonin doesn’t make you sleep. It’s a hormone your body produces naturally when it gets dark and signals that nighttime has arrived. That’s it. It sets the clock.

It doesn’t improve the quality of your sleep, and it doesn’t help you stay asleep.

That’s why it’s useful for jet lag or shift work, where your internal clock is genuinely off. But if you’re in a dark room at 11pm and your body already knows it’s nighttime… More melatonin isn’t the answer.

And here’s the part nobody tells you: the ideal dose, according to clinical research, is 0.3 to 1mg. Most gummies on the shelf are 5mg. Some go up to 15mg. That’s 10 to 50 times what your body needs.

The result?  Grogginess the next morning. Vivid, disruptive dreams that decrease your quality of sleep.

And over time, your body may produce less melatonin on its own because it’s getting so much from the outside.

You Deserve True Rest

Your body has a natural system (the endocannabinoid system) that regulates stress, inflammation, pain and sleep. It’s separate from your circadian clock and it plays a direct role in how deeply and restoratively you actually sleep.

CBN (cannabinol) is a cannabinoid that works with this system. It doesn’t just tell your body it’s bedtime, instead it supports the conditions that let your body actually recover overnight: reduced inflammation, lower stress response, deeper access to the sleep stages where repair happens.

In 2024, University of Sydney researchers published the first study using objective sleep measures to show that CBN increases sleep. They called it “sleepy cannabis”. 

The study found that CBN modified sleep architecture in a beneficial way, meaning it didn’t just help subjects sleep longer. It changed how they slept.

Separately, the largest controlled cannabinoid sleep study ever done tested CBN against melatonin and placebo across more than 1,000 participants. CBN improved sleep quality at every dose.

Sources: Neuropsychopharmacology 2024 (University of Sydney), Pharmaceuticals 2024 (Radicle Science / FloraWorks, 1,000+ participants)

It’s Not JUST About Sleeping Longer…

You can sleep 8 hours and wake up feeling like you didn’t sleep at all. That’s because sleep has stages, and not all of them are equal. Deep sleep and REM are where the real work happens: tissue repair, immune function, memory consolidation, emotional processing. If you’re spending most of your night in light sleep, 8 hours won’t save you.

This is where CBN makes a difference. It helps you fall asleep faster. But the real difference is what happens after. CBN helps improve the quality of your sleep so you wake up feeling actually restored.

This Is What We Made Sleep+ For

Sleep+ is built for the part of sleep that melatonin doesn’t touch.

It combines CBN, CBD and THC with botanicals that most cannabinoid gummies on the market don't bother with. That's what makes it different. The cannabinoids do the heavy lifting on sleep quality. The botanicals make sure your body is actually ready to receive it.

• Valerian Root: One of the oldest sleep herbs on the planet. It increases your GABA levels, the neurotransmitter that calms your nervous system down. It reduces the time it takes to fall asleep so you're not lying there staring at the ceiling running through tomorrow's to-do list.
  
  
• Passionflower: Works alongside Valerian to boost GABA even further. It promotes a deep sense of calm and brings on that heavy, ready-for-sleep feeling naturally. No grogginess the next day.
  
  
• Turkey Tail Mushroom: Rich in antioxidants, it supports gut health and immune recovery while you sleep. Your body does its deepest repair work at night. Turkey Tail makes sure the raw materials are there for it.

Most cannabinoid gummies on the market give you CBN or CBD and call it a night. Sleep+ stacks cannabinoids with functional botanicals at therapeutic doses so they actually work together.