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"As dementia sets in for ever-increasing numbers of our older population and memory is corrupted in our younger generations due to use of drugs, the question is - with no humor intended - who is going to remember to pick-up dads or granddads meds at the pharmacy?"
"Harvard study: We know that marijuana users tend to have deficits in functions such as working memory, attention, and certain decision-making tasks. . . Who would want to put dad's or granddad's meds into the hands of someone who is already predisposed to using mind-altering substances and is suffering memory deficits? Just saying."
"With chemically enhanced foods, the expanded use of mind-altering drugs, such as marijuana, along with the release by the FDA of more potent mind-numbing medicines, America appears to be in a mental downgrade making at-home-care of our elderly even less of an option. Institutional or long-term care is already out of the financial reach of families. A further sense of hopelessness arises as legalized drug use poses a threat to safe and adequate at-home-care."
from page 72 AGING: WARNING - Navigating Life's MEDICAL, MENTAL & FINANCIAL MINEFIELDS By Sharon Sebastian