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U.S. Baby Boomers Increasingly Using Cannabis

posted by chromas on Saturday September 08 2018, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the up-in-smoke dept.

takyon writes:

More baby boomers turning to cannabis, study says

Seniors are increasingly passing the pipe. About 9% of US adults between the ages of 50 and 64 have used marijuana at least once during the survey year, while 3% of those over 65 have done so, new research finds.

For middle-age adults, the percentage of cannabis users has doubled over nearly a decade, according to the study, published Thursday in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Older adults have seen a seven-fold increase in that period.

Though marijuana use is increasing among older Americans, "most of these people are not first-time users," said Joseph Palamar, senior study author and an associate professor in the Department of Population Health at New York University Langone Medical Center. "I don't think we need to worry about millions of older people trying weed for the first time," he said. "At least not yet."

Also at Newsweek and Inverse.

Marijuana use by middle-aged and older adults in the United States, 2015–2016 (DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.07.006) (DX)

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 08 2018, @01:54AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 08 2018, @01:54AM (#732007)

    "We're just waiting for them to die anyway ..."

    .

    That's funny, some of us baby boomers are looking forward to watching YOU die.

    I'm a baby boomer. I was a tunnel rat. Look that up and see if you think I would be
    scared of you.

    I'd love to meet you and teach you some respect for your elders, you little shit stain.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 08 2018, @02:09AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 08 2018, @02:09AM (#732009)

    see if you think I would be scared of you.

    Of course you're not scared; you have a shitton of money and you're a selfish asshole who plans to be buried with your fortune. You secretly wish you could destroy the entire world when you die because nobody else deserves to live after you're dead.

    Fucking die right now, you piece of shit.