Posted on 02/24/2020 8:42:49 PM PST by Mariner
(Reuters) - In just four years, marijuana use grew by 75% among Americans aged 65 and older, according to a new study, and researchers expressed concern over a lack of information on the potential health implications.
The increase was most pronounced in women, those with higher incomes and more education, according to a report published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The findings continue a trend seen over the last decade, said the study's lead author, Benjamin Han, an assistant professor of geriatric medicine and palliative care at the New York University School of Medicine.
"Consider that not even 10 years ago 0.4% of adults 65 and older said they had used marijuana in the past year, and now it's 10 times that at 4%," Han said.
The trend is concerning, Han said, because of the lack of research on the effects of cannabis on older people. Some prescription and even over-the-counter medicines, such as Benadryl, affect older people differently, he said.
It was not known whether the trend is tied to marijuana becoming legally available in a growing number of U.S. states, or if people had been using the drug for many years before turning 65.
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No need for a Facebook group in Norcal.
Seeds and clones are traded in every neighborhood.
“Ever wonder why the exponential increase in the incidence of autism parallels the exponential rise in the use of illicit drugs in America?”
No. I’m pretty sure you’re the only one.
My nephew began experimenting at 14, became a daily user around 17 and died of lung cancer at 38.
Sad all the way around, as he had a full engineering scholarship but dropped out as his general education classes were boring and too much of a drag and a big waste of his time!
He ultimately worked in restaurants but couldnt be trusted as a waiter either to keep his orders straight or always to remember to return the cash to the register.
So, there’s link between smoking pot and pedophilia?
Who knew?
No offense, but your nephew sounds like a flake.
Anyone who uses any drug to the point it affects their life goals...will use any drug to affect their life’s goals.
And there’s dozens of them to do the job.
You mean we didn’t smoke enough when we were younger? :)-~~~
And we wrote great songs, too.
Panama Red
Seeds and Stems, Again
Aculpoco Gold is some Bad-@ss Weed
Theres a lot more, but I forgot the titles.....
Bong out man!
“Don’t Bogart that joint.”
Excuse me but many of us do not live on the left coast. I have never seen a pot store and I never hope to. But you did remind me of something else:
1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.I realized in the early Seventies that it isn't very smart to be a head freak all one's life.
You are more than right but many young people are too young to get into mind altering drugs of any kind. The counselor my sister-in-law took him to said if he could wait until he was 18-20, hed be in a much better position to handle his emotional responses, etc. but his dad had just died in his sleep of a heart attack and that also was and additional emotional burden to deal with at age 14.
Bong out man!
That is so sad.
Yippee! A stoner vs juicer thread. Just like high school.
They’re all gonna die.
Shows you how little I know.
“Increasing numbers of older Baby Boomers are using marijuana... AGAIN”
Bingo. Most all of them smoked the original weed back in the 70s. And had fun doing it. Now that they are retired, who cares? Unless you are like me, still working and don’t like being stupider than normal.
Ah gee. I thought that stuff was my chawing tobacckey. No wonder it tasted funny. In fact, so did ma’s brownies. The dog ate one and I ain’t seen him since but he does sound like he is howling from the top of a tree out in the yard.
Also, the chickens have been laying hard-boiled funny tasting eggs lately.
Does anyone know what’s going on?
There never was a time when I wore any of that.
Along those same lines, there actually are a lot of great kids out
there these days.
The media doesn't talk about them, because it's too busy driving a
narrative.
I get caught up ragging on this generation because of all the publicity
the media gives the idiots.
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