Marijuana use continues to grow among baby boomers

[Zorro]

Marijuana use is becoming more prevalent among middle-aged and older adults, with 9 percent of adults aged 50-64 and nearly 3 percent of adults 65 and older reporting marijuana use in the past year, according to a study by researchers at NYU School of Medicine and the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.

These new figures, which use data from 2015-2016, demonstrate a substantial increase in marijuana use over the past near-decade -- double the percentage of adults aged 50-64 (4.5 percent) and more than seven times the percentage of adults 65 and older (0.4 percent) reporting use in 2006-2007.

The new findings, published online in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, build on an earlier Addiction study by the same researchers to illustrate this growing trend among baby boomers.

Attitudes towards marijuana use are changing in the U.S., with a growing number of states legalizing medical and recreational marijuana. Although marijuana users are more likely to be young adults, the baby boomer generation is unique, having more experience with recreational use of drugs than previous generations.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180906100458.htm

[SHRED]

1. It's a good medicine

Pain, sleep, cancer, etc...

I make infused coconut oil for edibles.
Fantastic to take an hour before bed for sleep.
If you aren't sleeping right it's difficult to get healthy.

Next grow will be CBD dominate plants to find out if I can minimize the head high but retain the other benefits. My family and friends want that.

[brush]

2. A lot of those boomers are ahhhh...shall we say, reacquainting themselves with pot...

as it was quite prevalent during the 60s.

FYI: It's a lot stronger than it was back in the day.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. I was gonna say....

I think more boomers are using than that survey says. I know of many who cannot grow/use in their state but still use, most for medicinal effects.

[pbmus]

3. Science, testimonials, .....

It’s the killer weed for sure....

[NNadir]

5. Well, we are definitely the most self indulgent generation in US history...

...and we've never held our intellects in as high regard as we hold money and leisure, so there's no surprise here.

I personally don't know anyone who uses pot - or if they do I'm not aware of it - but over the years, I've seen a lot of people who are wasted in one way or another, and certainly this was true in the 60's and 70's even more so than today.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.

[MineralMan]

6. As one such boomer, I have memories of being a daily

toker in the late 60s and early 70s. I suspect that many of those boomers are merely taking up smoking it again, after all those years.