Posted on 01/15/2019 8:57:26 AM PST by Mariner
Older people are the fastest-growing group of cannabis users, as stigma fades and some seek an alternative to prescription drugs
As attitudes towards cannabis shift, the fastest-growing group of users is over 50 and marijuanas popularity among seniors is beginning to change the American experience of old age.
Why are more seniors getting high? It might make more sense to ask: Why not? As adults reach retirement, they age out of drug tests and have far more time on their hands. Some feel liberated to abandon long-held proprieties.
Elegant vape pens and other attractive, discreet products have helped de stigmatize the drug among older Americans. Legalization seems to make non-users seem a little less scared of it, and perhaps less judgmental, says Jo, a 56-year-old cannabis user who preferred not to use her real name.
The seniors using cannabis today arent your parents grandparents. The generation that camped out at Woodstock is now in its seventies. Theyve been around grass long enough to realize its not going to kill them, and are more open to the possibility it will come with health benefits. (By contrast, in a survey of one, my 100-year-old grandmother recently said she had no interest in medical marijuana.)
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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.
Generally stronger pot and exponentially more ways of the delivery of THCA and terpines etc
Edible
Oil
Shatter
And so forth
Do it out or boredom and isolation,fits the same agenda as the slacker tribe.
Pot is a habit
Not an addiction
“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?
I think character issues are responsible for most of both.
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.
Because pot cures literally everything. With a roll of bailing wire and a handful of pot flakes, you can cure decapitation
The writer felt using the term "old farts" would be offensive.
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.
I’ll be 65 in November. I can hardly wait.
The elderly follow the “use or lose it” rule when getting around. Anything that saps ambition and drive, cant be good.
Pot is a habit. Not an addiction.
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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.
not interested thanx
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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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.
I don’t mind if people do it at home but driving a care stoned is a problem.
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.
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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