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Increasing numbers of older Baby Boomers are using marijuana: study
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | February 24th, 2020 | By Linda Carroll

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; buyamerican; cannabis; chat; cjng; copd; dea; marijuana; organizedcrime; pot; potheads; sinaloa; wod
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To: Jayster

No need for a Facebook group in Norcal.

Seeds and clones are traded in every neighborhood.


41 posted on 02/24/2020 9:32:55 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: allendale

“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.


42 posted on 02/24/2020 9:34:29 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
Potheads were always from the baby boomer group. Many, if not most, tried it then in their teens/early 20s, maybe did it to fit in with their peers but never personally got much out of it and discontinued consistent use into their career years due to older bosses frowning on it but others continued throughout the decades and now are fully into daily use.

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 couldn’t be trusted as a waiter either to keep his orders straight or always to “remember” to return the cash to the register.

43 posted on 02/24/2020 9:35:41 PM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: OrangeHoof

So, there’s link between smoking pot and pedophilia?

Who knew?


44 posted on 02/24/2020 9:36:32 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: zerosix

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.


45 posted on 02/24/2020 9:39:32 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

You mean we didn’t smoke enough when we were younger? :)-~~~


46 posted on 02/24/2020 9:45:32 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Mariner

And we wrote great songs, too.

“Panama Red”
“Seeds and Stems, Again”
“Aculpoco Gold is some Bad-@ss Weed”

There’s a lot more, but I forgot the titles.....


47 posted on 02/24/2020 9:45:35 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Mariner

Bong out man!


48 posted on 02/24/2020 9:47:40 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: VanShuyten

“Don’t Bogart that joint.”


49 posted on 02/24/2020 9:49:13 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Mariner
You would have to talk to a Bud Tender in an actual pot store.

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.
50 posted on 02/24/2020 10:01:55 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Mariner
No offense taken.

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, he’d 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.

51 posted on 02/24/2020 10:06:38 PM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: higgmeister

Bong out man!


52 posted on 02/24/2020 10:28:52 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: zerosix

That is so sad.


53 posted on 02/24/2020 10:37:32 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Mariner

Yippee! A stoner vs juicer thread. Just like high school.


54 posted on 02/24/2020 10:41:40 PM PST by SanchoP (DC is the deep state.)
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To: Mariner

They’re all gonna die.


55 posted on 02/24/2020 10:48:04 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: Mariner

Shows you how little I know.


56 posted on 02/24/2020 11:02:02 PM PST by Rastus
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To: a fool in paradise

“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.


57 posted on 02/24/2020 11:07:17 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Mariner

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?


58 posted on 02/24/2020 11:09:47 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: DoughtyOne
Exactly! Boomers are of the Woodstock and the Hippie Generation. Next they'll be wearing tie-dyed T-shirts and wearing flowers in their hair reliving their good old days.
59 posted on 02/24/2020 11:14:43 PM PST by caww
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To: caww
I don't know what it was, but tie-dyed t-shirts (or clothing) was revolting
to me.

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.

60 posted on 02/24/2020 11:44:13 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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