I need a really funny intro sentence here about senior citizens smoking marijuana, but you know what...screw it. The fact is, it's aging boomers that are part of this trend, and let's acknowledge that many minor aches and pains could use a little relief. All of us will have to deal with old age at some point in time.
From today's yahoo news:
http://news.yahoo.com/...
According to federal stats, the usage rates are rising for seniors.
(flip)
The last sentence of the first paragraph is funny in a high school way:
And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.
But this article should not just become another lame, worn-out, cliche joke about marijuana. Senior citizens are trying to learn more about how medical cannabis can help them.
Another section from the Yahoo article:
The number of people aged 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 percent to 2.9 percent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The rise was most dramatic among 55- to 59-year-olds, whose reported marijuana use more than tripled from 1.6 percent in 2002 to 5.1 percent.
Observers expect further increases as 78 million boomers born between 1945 and 1964 age. For many boomers, the drug never held the stigma it did for previous generations, and they tried it decades ago.
I will soon be posting a diary about the University of California cannabis study, in a continuation of my series on cannabis. There is a lot to be known about the UC study just released that shows marijuana to be 'therapeutic'. It's the first study of its kind in two decades, funded to the tune of 8$ million by the state of California.
It seems as if the medical benefits of marijuana are NOT based on it being high potency, high-THC product. This COMPLETELY changes the game by debunking the anti-cannabis argument which posits that the only benefit from cannabis is its mood-altering capabilities.