[Mariner]

Many seniors see weed as less damaging then the prescription drugs the doc wants to put them on. or have weened themselves off opioids with the help of weed.

Other do it out or boredom and isolation.

In CA they grow their own, trade product, cuttings and seeds as hobby.

[onedoug]

Marijuana should not be available to anyone under age 65.

[Innovative]

They have trouble handling life and are trying to escape into imaginary worlds, instead of doing something positive for themselves and others.

Doing drugs is running away from life and reality.

[Red Badger]

Whut?............................

[BenLurkin]

Because they see that the world is in the toilet and they want to spend their finals days in bliss?

[I want the USA back]

This one doesn’t.

[yldstrk]

No, the reason is that they have all along, the senior stoners are yesterday’s hippies.

[marron]

The “seniors” all came up in the hippie/post-hippie era.

[CodeToad]

1960’s generation.

[LouieFisk]

“why are so many seniors smoking weed?”
—
Old addictions are hard to quit?

[Stosh]

Uhh - because they grew up in the 60’s and now they have the time and the money to do it? (and they can call out for pizza afterwards without having to bum a few bucks off the low-lifes they hang with).

[atc23]

I'm over 60. I smoke a little weed (4-6 hits) every day. Cured my insomnia. I NEVER operate machinery or a motor vehicle while stoned. I've got a pound of Santa Cruz Sticky in the office drawer - figure it'll last me about 5 or 6 years.

[Truthoverpower]

It’s-all about the chocolate now
10 mg. No smoke

[skinndogNN]

My biggest beef with this article is them calling 50 year olds “seniors”.

[Truthoverpower]

It’s-all about the chocolate now
10 mg. No smoke

[ArtDodger]

Here in Virginia, Fauquier and Culpeper counties are finally being called the epicenter of a drug epidemic. So many people are over-dosing.
For years it has been kept quiet. We just read that some man or woman, aged 15 to 55, ‘died at home’.
Parents are letting their kids dabble and maybe introducing them, start with grass.

[PGR88]

I know many baby-boomer friends and relatives who smoke weed.

They smoked when young, as part of their culture. They gave it up (or reduced it a lot) during family-formation and professional working years.

They have taken up smoking weed again in retirement. I attribute as an attempt to return to the carefree days of their youth, especially since their responsibilities are now lessened. As for health/cognitive effects - the attitude seems to be “screw it, I’ll do what I want, and I’m getting old anyway”

[Sans-Culotte]

That question goes with “why do so many balding gray-haired dudes have ponytails?”

[rhombus10]

Oh goody, another weed thread amongst people who say they want less government in their lives.

[BlackAdderess]

Are these seniors in hippy-dippy land?

[PapaBear3625]

The people who smoked in college are now retired, and see no reason not to.