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Marijuana use by seniors goes up as boomers age
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| Feb 22
| MATT SEDENSKY
Posted on 02/22/2010 6:57:32 AM PST by JoeProBono
MIAMI - 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.....
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: boomers; jpb; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; seniors; wod
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/22/2010 6:59:08 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
To: JoeProBono
Just when your memory starts to slip, you jam on the accelerator...
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:00:31 AM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: Hoosier-Daddy
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:02:08 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: JoeProBono
I can just imagine seniors on HoverRound scooters tooling down to the local 7/11 to get Zig-Zag papers and Phillies “blunts.” Complete with a bad of Doritos and Slurpee for the munchies.
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:02:08 AM PST
by
Mengerian
To: JoeProBono
Smoking weed is just as civilized, and no more dangerous, than alcohol. IMO.
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:03:23 AM PST
by
CalvaryJohn
(What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
To: massgopguy
“Ah, Bach.”LOL, you beat me to it!!!
To: JoeProBono
Humboldt and Trinity are now officially awash in the stuff
even the sheriff of Trinity has a patch
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:04:29 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Epic Beard Man sez: "If you think cops are pigs next time you need help call an amber lamps")
To: JoeProBono
A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Anyone need more evidence that pot-smoking causes stupidity???
To: JoeProBono
Yes, its a good idea to be high when reading the the NY Times. Makes it all so much more easy to accept.
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:05:05 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Why do you think they call it ‘dope’?
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:07:15 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: CalvaryJohn
long term chronic use of pot makes for strange folks...not as destructive as alcohol but languishing for a lifetime
(daily pot smoker 1971-1983)
pot is best in discretion
i cannot stand to be around dense stoned goofy self absorbed folks anymore but once I was one...almost 30 years ago
never thought I’d quit but life got in the way...I cannot imagine being stoned much now or God forbid Owlsley...is he still alive?
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:07:57 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Epic Beard Man sez: "If you think cops are pigs next time you need help call an amber lamps")
To: JoeProBono
Why is it considered (by society) wrong to smoke cigarettes, but pot is supposedly ok?
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:09:59 AM PST
by
Grunthor
(The more people I meet, the more I love my dogs.)
To: JoeProBono
The wisdom of age seems somewhat overstated.
SnakeDoc
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:10:29 AM PST
by
SnakeDoctor
(Do you know if the hotel is pager friendly? [...] I'm not getting a sig on my beeper.)
To: CalvaryJohn
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:11:48 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: CalvaryJohn
I hate marijuana!!! It has stolen 13 years from my son’s life. He too thinks it is harmless. He has college degree.. started smoking in college, does nothing else beside pot but it has taken away, his son, relationships, jobs... he now waits tables at 33. Very bad imho! He knows he can’t pass a drug test at other jobs.
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:15:54 AM PST
by
JFC
To: CalvaryJohn
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:16:00 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: wardaddy
“i cannot stand to be around dense stoned goofy self absorbed folks anymore but once I was one...almost 30 years ago”
Well I enjoy the occassional drink but it doesn’t mean I want to be around falling down drunks!
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:17:08 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: JFC
Alchohol has effected others in similiar ways, do you think alchohol should be made illegal?
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:18:46 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: JoeProBono
Ah, that explains Sea Shepherd.
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posted on
02/22/2010 7:22:21 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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