Posted on 08/23/2009 12:14:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to U.S. government statistics released on Wednesday. The rates of people aged 50 to 59 who admit to using illicit drugs in the past year nearly doubled from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 9.4 percent in 2007 while rates among all other age groups are the same or decreasing, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported.
"These findings show that many in the Woodstock generation continue to use illicit drugs as they age," SAMHSA Acting Administrator Eric Broderick said in a statement......
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Not me, ask any of my friends. They will tell you, I’m already stupid enough.
Pot will get you through times of government health care better than government health care will get you through times of no pot.
Keeping up with my younger peers is hard enough with the
brain cells I have left.
Theres a reason its called dope.
Now wait a minute!
Doesn’t everyone say that doing drugs will shorten your life?
How can there still be people alive from the “Woodstock” generation if they are still doing dope?
Baraq told us to take painkillers instead of getting the operation.........
Hey, dude. don't bogart that doobie!
LOL!
Munging the statistics to fit the premise. The "Baby Boom" label is usually applied those born between 1945 and 1964 (i.e. Twenty years, not ten).
So don’t stop them....more money for everyone else.
Life-shortening activity is unavoidable, apparently, since most people die "before their time."
I want a new drug....to get me through the next 3 1/2 years.....
I have Huey Lewis in my head.
Clearly the main reason so many boomers voted for O: Lost in the O-zone!
I don't understand why I keep getting lumped into loser status just because I'm a baby boomer. We are not all drug using hippies out here! Nor am I a whiner that Rush sometimes comments on in his talk radio program.
hey, what’s in that tea and cake grannie? lol...
“Pot will get you through times of government health care better than government health care will get you through times of no pot.”
...Whoa dude!.....you’re really takin’ me back here...I’m gonna guess you’re paraphrasing Freewheeling Franklin in Gilbert Shelton’s “Wonder Warthog” comics from the early 1970s....an I right and do I get a prize?
You are right and your prize is an intact memory. ;^)
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