CANNAHEALTH Seniors: Finding Comfort with Cannabis | Page 11

An increasing number of US states allow both medical marijuana and home growing. Many people are exercising their newly found freedom and learning how to grow their own medicine. Among them are seniors, who make up 14% of the population but take 30% of all prescription medicine.

Ditching Pills for Pot: How Some Seniors are Rethinking Medicine Options

A couple of years ago a viral video of grandmothers smoking weed for the first time went viral. It was cute because it was not something we had seen much of. Instead of Cheech or Snoop, someone’s nanna was ripping a smoking glass bong. It was more than novelty. It was the foreshadowing that few forecasters expected; a lot of seniors would soon be using marijuana. Some of them would be new users, some first time in a long time users and a few closet growers who have had sticky fingers for decades.

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