Many seniors see weed as less damaging then the prescription drugs the doc wants to put them on. or have weened themselves off opioids with the help of weed.
Other do it out or boredom and isolation.
In CA they grow their own, trade product, cuttings and seeds as hobby.
1 posted on
01/15/2019 8:57:26 AM PST by
Mariner
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To: Mariner
Marijuana should not be available to anyone under age 65.
2 posted on
01/15/2019 8:59:14 AM PST by
onedoug
To: Mariner
They have trouble handling life and are trying to escape into imaginary worlds, instead of doing something positive for themselves and others.
Doing drugs is running away from life and reality.
To: Mariner
Whut?............................
5 posted on
01/15/2019 9:01:35 AM PST by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Mariner
Because they see that the world is in the toilet and they want to spend their finals days in bliss?
6 posted on
01/15/2019 9:01:45 AM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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7 posted on
01/15/2019 9:02:12 AM PST by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
To: Mariner
No, the reason is that they have all along, the senior stoners are yesterday’s hippies.
8 posted on
01/15/2019 9:02:32 AM PST by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Mariner
The “seniors” all came up in the hippie/post-hippie era.
12 posted on
01/15/2019 9:03:52 AM PST by
marron
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13 posted on
01/15/2019 9:04:13 AM PST by
CodeToad
( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
To: Mariner
“why are so many seniors smoking weed?”
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Old addictions are hard to quit?
To: Mariner
Uhh - because they grew up in the 60’s and now they have the time and the money to do it? (and they can call out for pizza afterwards without having to bum a few bucks off the low-lifes they hang with).
16 posted on
01/15/2019 9:04:35 AM PST by
Stosh
To: Mariner
I'm over 60. I smoke a little weed (4-6 hits) every day. Cured my insomnia. I NEVER operate machinery or a motor vehicle while stoned. I've got a pound of Santa Cruz Sticky in the office drawer - figure it'll last me about 5 or 6 years.
18 posted on
01/15/2019 9:06:09 AM PST by
atc23
To: Mariner
Its-all about the chocolate now
10 mg. No smoke
19 posted on
01/15/2019 9:06:38 AM PST by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: Mariner
My biggest beef with this article is them calling 50 year olds “seniors”.
To: Mariner
Its-all about the chocolate now
10 mg. No smoke
21 posted on
01/15/2019 9:07:16 AM PST by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: Mariner
Here in Virginia, Fauquier and Culpeper counties are finally being called the epicenter of a drug epidemic. So many people are over-dosing.
For years it has been kept quiet. We just read that some man or woman, aged 15 to 55, ‘died at home’.
Parents are letting their kids dabble and maybe introducing them, start with grass.
To: Mariner
I know many baby-boomer friends and relatives who smoke weed.
They smoked when young, as part of their culture. They gave it up (or reduced it a lot) during family-formation and professional working years.
They have taken up smoking weed again in retirement. I attribute as an attempt to return to the carefree days of their youth, especially since their responsibilities are now lessened. As for health/cognitive effects - the attitude seems to be “screw it, I’ll do what I want, and I’m getting old anyway”
25 posted on
01/15/2019 9:08:14 AM PST by
PGR88
To: Mariner
That question goes with “why do so many balding gray-haired dudes have ponytails?”
27 posted on
01/15/2019 9:08:41 AM PST by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: Mariner
Oh goody, another weed thread amongst people who say they want less government in their lives.
To: Mariner
Are these seniors in hippy-dippy land?
36 posted on
01/15/2019 9:12:24 AM PST by
BlackAdderess
(I remember when a person's thoughts were their own and not everyone else's responsibility)
To: Mariner
The people who smoked in college are now retired, and see no reason not to.
37 posted on
01/15/2019 9:13:20 AM PST by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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