And they turned 15 in 1970.
I suspect they've been smoking it all along. Maybe not every day...but every once in a while.
But now that they're retired things are picking up.
Who did this surprise?
Availability is probably the big driver here.
Also, the legality thing was probably a sticking point when trying to maintain employment...
Increasing numbers of older Baby Boomers are using marijuana... AGAIN
What a bunch of dummasses.
I’ve been around both and I’ll take pot smokers over drunks anytime. Drunks annoy the s**t out of me not to mention they’ve killed tens of thousands on the roads.
Our son lives in Colorado and has offered me the gummies, the not loopy kind, when I have a headache or other aches and pains. I took him up on it once. I didn’t like it.
Yep, nostalgy for good old days:)
Waiting for the drug “warriors” to opine how this will make 65 year old people a drag on the productivity of the workforce.
Not me. Not anymore at least. It’s enough that I smoke a few cigarettes with my asthma. Down to about 3 or 4 sticks a day, sometimes less. I rarely smoke an entire cigarette in one session. Marijuana leaves gooey resin in the lungs when you hold your breath. Plus the MJ odor lasts longer in anything porous, ie. cloth, wood or wax.
Boomers are full of damn dirty hippies. Not shocking.
Folks born in the 50s deciding to smoke marijuana? I’m shocked! Shocked!!
Hmmm. Decide to smoke marijuana. You know what happens when you say that backwards?
Another one bites the dust!
Trippy!
Pot makes everyone paranoid, eventually.
If anyone has ultra pure acid...
Well, you cut off prescription drugs
And then, facetiously suggested MJ
Jackasses
Like Windex is a cure all
“But never at dusk!”
Well there’s a store on nearly every block of every city in Oregon. Lots of loopy women here, too.
Unfortunately chronic marijuana and drug use is the legacy baby boomers left for America. Ever wonder why the exponential increase in the incidence of autism parallels the exponential rise in the use of illicit drugs in America? They will die leaving America a lesser place than the country that existed when they were born.
I wonder if these numbers include people who are using that CDC or whatever you call it oil?
I’m a boomer and know that more than 4% of our generation are potheads. All of the known drunks in the neighborhood are also known drug addicts. It doesn’t bother me that it’s being publicized, because I don’t identify with drug addicts of any age.
A problem should be objectively analyzed and defined before a solution can be realized. Vanity (e.g., group identity) only gets in the way. Removing stigma and penalties contributes to the problem of drug abuse.