Is Grandma Baking Cookies or Is She Baked?
The National Poll on Healthy Aging (which sounds like a hell of a dinner party) found that 21% of older adults are now partaking in “the evil weed” in some form. That’s right, nearly one in five Americans over the age of 50 lit up, munched a gummy, or tangoed with THC in the past year. Twelve percent are doing it monthly—religiously, you might say. Back in 2015, only about 3% of folks over 50 were using cannabis. What changed? Maybe the stigma died. Maybe the joints got better. Or maybe, after a few decades of watching the world go sideways, older Americans just decided, “Screw it—pass the edible.” I’m guessin’ it’s the latter.
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