Marijuana Use by Seniors Rises as Boomers Age

[kpete]

Source: Associated Press

Marijuana Use by Seniors Rises as Boomers Age
Published: Monday, 22 Feb 2010 | 6:53 AM ET

By: AP

In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.

Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older.

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.

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[marmar]

1. And where did you get that marijuana young man?

...... From my grandma.

:smoke:

[nebenaube]

2. funny..

I remember in 1976, standing in grandma's front yard, my dad giving me the lecture about pot. I said, "what... you mean this stuff?" as I pointed over to the flowerbed.

[Fire1]

3. Ha!! LOL!!!! n/t

[pipi_k]

7. hahahah!! I still don't know if my mom, who is now 75...

ever found out that the "tomato" plant she was tending on her kitchen windowsill (for my younger brother, back in the mid 80s) was a pot plant.

It died, and she felt really really awful...

Maybe someday I'll tell her...


:7

[dmr]

15. My mom had one on her bathroom sill in 1977

Said she found a full bed of the plants in the woods where she went for a walk one day. She had never seen this pretty leafed plant before, so she 'grabbed' one for herself and replanted it in a pot of her own.

It had grown more than tripled in size. She had just bought a larger planter for repotting. She was intrigued by the small unusual buds on it.

After being told what it was, she didn't care. She thought it was pretty. So she repotted it, put it by a warm sunny window, and nurtured it. Where it grew and grew and grew and smelled the house up something fierce.

Mom ended up putting "smelly damn thing" outside next to the trash can. She said she no sooner got back into the house when a man in a car driving by did a double-take, backed up and grabbed the plant with the biggest smile on his face!

Oh, mom ....

[Stumbler]

4. Finally

Since the senior population is more likely to be involved in politics, maybe now we'll finally get around to ending this silly criminalization thing...

[pipi_k]

6. I'm thinking that's probably a part of what happened

here in Mass.


Now all we have to do is decriminalize growing the stuff... :7

[mvccd1000]

5. Still miniscule

My dad has cancer and lives in a medical marijuana state. He has no interest.

[devilgrrl]

8. OMG! Don't they know that it's a gateway drug!

:wow:

[MuseRider]

9. Will they have a special

"smoking" room in the convalescent centers? I sure hope so because if my brain is gone I don't want to know about it :crazy:

Can you imagine? No, you can't visit grandma now. She is getting treatment.

YAY, now I don't have to worry about getting old since I am almost there.

[leftofcool]

11. LOL! The "New and Improved" treatment

[MuseRider]

13. Gotta have it!

The new Treatment Health Center (THC for short). Keeps those natives calm, keeps them from organizing a protest or desiring to set things up commune style.

[leftofcool]

10. Florence is my kind of woman

[yellowcanine]

12. Heh. Brings a new meaning to "Grandma's brownies"

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

14. the average age of registered CO MMJ patients

is over 40. No surprise here!

[Warren DeMontague]

16. wait a minute. Over 40 is "seniors"?

Fuck a duck!!!! That's no good. :rofl:

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

17. no no no!

If it is, I'm fucking that duck right along side you...