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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 08 2018, @02:03PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 08 2018, @02:03PM (#732191)

    At 50, you've on average lived 2/3 of your life, so

    whippersnapper 0-25
    middle aged 25-50
    senior 50-75
    on borrowed time 75+

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @12:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @12:38AM (#732351)

    Oh please! 25 is not middle aged, it is the prime of life.
    Only autistic-tending people (figuratively!) feel free to ignore the definitions of words for something entirely of their own personal creation.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @05:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @05:55AM (#732401)

    > middle aged 25-50

    You seem to have missed a classic phrase, "Don't trust anyone over 30!"

    Now that I'm 62, I've reversed that and don't trust anyone under 30--at least not when it comes to technical details in my field. It's the rare 20-something that has the patience to follow through and really do a through job.