Posted on 01/10/2023 2:03:35 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The number of seniors visiting emergency rooms in California for cannabis-related issues is growing, according to new research.
From 2005 to 2019, the state’s emergency departments saw a 1,808 percent relative increase in the rate of cannabis-related trips among those aged 65 and older.
Cannabis is currently legal for both medicinal and recreational use in California. The state became the first in the country to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, while the substance was not approved for recreational use there until November 2016.
The study found that cannabis-related emergency department visits in California rose sharply among seniors from 2013 to 2017, but leveled off after 2017 following implementation of the state’s legalization program. Based on those findings, researchers noted legalization of recreational marijuana does not appear to correlate with higher emergency department visits among elderly adults.
But the results do underscore the health risks cannabis can pose to seniors.
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Sounds like there was more than THC in that jerky.🤔
That’s what I was wondering.🤔
One of the big weed gummy manufacturers down here in Florida is run by Chinese.
Pot smoke messes with your lungs bigtime as much as cigarette smoke. It also affects your heart rate. Not such a big deal when one is 30 and bulletproof but can be a very big deal when one is older and lung and heart tissue is old, too.
Think Willie Nelson and collapsed lungs and emphysema in 2012 - even with experimental stem cell treatments back in 2015, he was starting to cancel concerts regularly because of breathing problems. He’d quit smoking cigarettes in 1978 but once stated he was “a canary in the coal mine, an experiment for what happens when you smoke for years..” He near died last summer from covid after catching it from a band member.
As my doctor told me, there’s things you got away with as a kid but you need to leave those things in your youth behind you where they belong.
But one can’t mention Willie without playing some music, yeah?
Willie and his son Lucas ‘Just Breathe’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-Cx9IX4So
sure, a celebratory shot of vodka in a blue moon and maybe a frothy draft beer on the rare occasion I have a drink at a restaurant....that's about it....
“Now we know where the “Buzz” in your handle comes from!”
Actually, the “Buzz” was from a game I played many years ago. But that is a good one.
cannabis-related issues
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Like over eating?
Or tripping and falling?
Or forgetting to take a daily med?
Or forgetting to wear a mask, and getting COVID?
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