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The mature stoner: why are so many seniors smoking weed?
The Guardian (UK) ^
| January 15th, 2019
| Alex Halperin
Posted on 01/15/2019 8:57:26 AM PST by Mariner
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To: mewzilla
Probably for the same reason the STD rate for seniors is soaring...Is the weed causing more unprotected sex? Or is unprotected sex causing more weed smoking? Correlation doesn't always prove causation... or so "they" say.
To: morphing libertarian
Generally stronger pot and exponentially more ways of the delivery of THCA and terpines etc
Edible
Oil
Shatter
And so forth
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:27:04 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
To: Mariner
I don't smoke weed, but did a couple of times in Vietnam. Didn't really like it.
Fast forward 50 years and I was recently diagnosed (2016) with generalized anxiety disorder. Not a big deal, but still can be bothersome at times.
My doctor suggested Paxil, but I don't like side effects so I tried an OTC "natural" remedy, L-Theanine. Eh, it's okay, I guess.
Then a few months ago my PA suggested I try CBD oil, (with THC = 0) which is found in marijuana. I rejected her suggestion out of hand, but the more I look into it, the more I may just go for it.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:27:13 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Mariner
Do it out or boredom and isolation,fits the same agenda as the slacker tribe.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:27:21 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
To: LouieFisk
Pot is a habit
Not an addiction
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:27:32 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
To: rhombus10
“another weed thread amongst people who say they want less government in their lives”
Hey, pot is being legalized. Isn’t that resulting in less government?
To: rhombus10
I think character issues are responsible for most of both.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:28:30 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: Mariner
They have been smoking pot since the 1960s. They just got old. Its another windows 10 has more users than windows xp. Stupid people getting stoned and thinking they are enlightened.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:28:40 AM PST
by
webheart
(Grammar police on the scene.)
Because pot cures literally everything. With a roll of bailing wire and a handful of pot flakes, you can cure decapitation
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:28:43 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
To: skinndogNN
My biggest beef with this article is them calling 50 year olds seniors. The writer felt using the term "old farts" would be offensive.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:28:45 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(God bless America - except for California.)
To: Mariner; atc23
Plastic sealer and a boveda at 72 humidity
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:30:02 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
To: Innovative
In some instances, that is no doubt the case, but individual facts and circumstances matter. A friend whose daughter died of an opioid overdose declined to take them for her severe arthritis and instead finds relief in a joint every evening. Her doctor told her to continue doing so as an effective and less risky therapy than the opioids he had prescribed.
To: onedoug
I’ll be 65 in November. I can hardly wait.
To: ClearCase_guy
The elderly follow the “use or lose it” rule when getting around. Anything that saps ambition and drive, cant be good.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:34:19 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: wardaddy
Pot is a habit. Not an addiction.
—
I recall when a guy told me, elsewhere online, also told me that. He said he knew because he had been smoking pot for 30-40 years and he hadn’t become addicted to it.
I’m still trying to square that unique circle of logic.
To: wardaddy
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:35:57 AM PST
by
morphing libertarian
(Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: dsrtsage
Because pot cures literally everything. With a roll of bailing wire and a handful of pot flakes, you can cure decapitation
*****************************************************
Urban legend.
In reality, with duct tape, super glue and pot, a person cleaved in half can be put back together.
The duct tape and super glue to the work. The pot just manages the pain and keeps the patient still while the parts grow back together.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:36:43 AM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Mariner
I don’t mind if people do it at home but driving a care stoned is a problem.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:37:12 AM PST
by
McGruff
To: onedoug
Makes sense to me. Having chronic bilateral pain in both shoulders, elbows and thumb joints from Cervical Radiculopathy since May of 2018, and a 2 doctors that cannot get an MRI approved, I will just continue to suffer on a pain level of 7 or greater.
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:37:46 AM PST
by
Klemper
(And then... and ONLY then... do they get their only chance to come back into America the legal way.)
To: Innovative
Or maybe because they no longer have daily responsibilities they decided, in the privacy of their own homes, do do whatever they want to. Maybe they could afford to retire, having contributed enough to society.
Maybe at their age they have successfully handled life. Or... maybe most of all... they don't need some bluenose - trying to run everybody's life from cradle to grave - telling them everything thing they can and cannot do.
"Hey, you successful, retired geriatrics. I got a list of shit you better be doin' so's you don't travel outside the reality lane!"
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posted on
01/15/2019 9:38:24 AM PST
by
Lagmeister
( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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