In the un-necessary story of the week,
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Marijuana use by seniors goes up as boomers age
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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.
.This is completely un-fair!! All I could ever steal from my grandparents was blood thinners and Anacin!! And BTW, who cares? So long as gramps and granny aren't doing drive-bys in their electric wheel chairs at the nursing home over drug "turf", WTF is this hurting? Huh, what harm is there?
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Schteveo
6 comments:
Not only harmless, but totally understandable, since "Mary-J" can surely make a lot of medical problems feel better. With each passing day, we're getting closer and closer to something that should have happened years ago, legalization.
5.1% of 55-59 year-olds admit smoking dope.
Key word 'admit'.
Me thinks the actual % is way higher.
'Higher', get it? :-)
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Yeah, but if a bunch of old people start smokin' the bud, the price is gonna skyrocket. And what about the memory thing? How will the kids know if grandma's on the nod, or if she's slumped over having a stroke?
Then again, I'd like to see the numbers of strokes per non-smokers, vs strokes among smokers. I'll betcha the smokers are mellow and non-stroking. Hmmmm...would this work,
"...but officer, I was trying to keep from having a stroke!"
It might, it just might.
The price will go through the floor when it's legalized. And the memory thing? (LOL) It goes even without smokin, so ya might as well enjoy it. And it's pretty tough to get a stroke when you're mellowed out and looking for chocolate and potato chips! ;)
OK, maybe I was wrong. Here's a story about a bunch of old retired farts hangin' out with BIKERS!
I wonder were you get Depends with "Prospect" written on the ass?
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