Posted on 04/21/2025 7:08:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Not to be blunt, but Gail Zanchelli hated marijuana as a teen growing up on Long Island.
“Tried it, never liked it,” Zanchelli, 64, told The Post.
Now it’s part of her nightly routine. The Deer Park resident takes 60 milligrams of gummies infused with THC — the main active ingredient in marijuana — before bed to relieve chronic throbbing in her tailbone.
She’s part of a budding group of seniors who use cannabis to relax, ease pain, sleep better or manage their mental health.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Terrible
“Idiots”
When they scheduled Vicodin I started smoking to help relieve my severe arthritis symptoms, especially at bedtime. Has worked like champ.
Ping
I don’t care where the smoke comes from; there is ZERO chance that inhaling anything but clean air is good for your lungs.
20 years from now they will be warning about weed smoke causing cancer, guaranteed.
If you dont have God, yes, they need drugs to dull the pain of living.
“The Deer Park resident takes 60 milligrams of gummies infused with THC”
BS
60mg of THC would put even experienced users into an outter orbit.
< considers 3 stand up toolbox sets plus a 3 drawer lateral file cabinet full of battery and corded power tools in the tool room next to the garage>
I resemble that remark!
Awesome! I just celebrated 38 years.
They advertise all the great things these gummies will do for you ,LOL
Congrats!
When I was young, smoking pot was fun. In the mid-80s, I started getting really anxious and paranoid when I was high. I don’t know if the dope changed or if I did, but it wasn’t fun anymore, so I quit. Now that I’m retired and drug tests are a thing of the past, I suppose I could try it again, but I’m really not interested.
The last few years I also seem to have lost interest in drinking, though I drank quite a bit back in the day. I can if I want to, I just don’t want to. Maybe every few months I’ll have a beer or a rum & coke.
Getting old, I guess.
Yeah, getting old…same here. Smoking grass would make me paranoid, too. That’s why I quit. I’m better off for it. I stopped drinking because I was diagnosed with cirrhosis.It wasn’t from drinking-I have autoimmune diseases that destroyed my liver. Luckily I received a new one 4 years ago. I don’t drink because the meds I take are not compatible with alcohol. It’s a good thing, I feel better every morning, but I do miss that nice glass of red wine every now and then. It’s a small price to pay.🙂👍
I dumped pot in 1977. I just lost interest. Oddly, the same thing is just recently happening with alcohol. I’ve got a pretty well stocked bar but I just don’t bother with it much any more. It was just a “cool thing to have”.
I do keep Costco brand cabernet wine (boxed wine) around and will have a glass with meals from time to time. I add a dash of sugar to take the “cheap edge” off.
Retirement homes are turning into the modern “commune”. That is hotbeds of sex and marijuana.
Not joking. STD’s are becoming a real problem.
Glad you were able to get a new (or at least gently used) liver. One of my sisters died at 45 of liver failure due to hepatitis C.
My own liver is apparently still doing OK, though I’m not really sure why.
woke up one morning somewhere between the 60’s and the 70’s and it suddenly occurred to me WHY it’s called “dope”. never touched it again. the best part was it left me with more cash for my other addiction...TOOLS! which a friend told me once is more expensive than a drug addiction but much healthier.
Wow
Keep in mind that there are two ........veins of weed. One is high in CBD — which cannot make you high and can really relieve inflammation. It is good for arthritis. I took it when my arthritis became severe but quit when the stuff I was getting quit working — probably ‘cause it was fake and had no CBD in it.
The other form is for dope heads to get high on while showing disdain for alcohol.
The article begins innocently enough with an elderly person consuming edibles — but by the end, is full-tilt touting smoking as the only way to go.
Smoking anything is bad for you — whether tobacco, pot, wildfires, field burning, or the neighbor’s trash. Those who are very familiar with marijuana know that it leaves a thick resin and residue in their paraphernalia — which is doing the same thing to your lungs. Heavy chronic smokers of anything will note the same residue coating their walls, furniture, clothing, etc.
I don’t like these campaigns touting smoking pot as only having benefits without these grave risks — as most long-time pot smokers are aware of and have COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) as a result. Smoking anything will result in some form of lung irritation and disease. Smoking is the problem because it pollutes everybody’s air.
That is the point the marijuana advocates need to address — rather than their “right” to pollute everybody’s air and impose their “thing” on everybody else. Find a way to do it without offending everybody else. Otherwise, the offense is the problem — and not the solution — thoughtless individuals promote as their “right.” That’s what is wrong with society and political agendas — that they want everybody else to support and pay for.
I am not surprised considering the war on pain killers. Even dentists will no longer prescribe Tylenol with codeine.
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