Cannabis use on the rise among seniors study shows
Cannabis use on the rise among seniors study shows
ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton breaks down the study and risks seniors should be aware of while using cannabis.
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OH CUT THE CRAP! We have been smoking pot for *60 YEARS* WAITING on the gov. to catch up. What are the "dangers" kids? I’ve been smoking pot from BEFORE these kids were born.
When you smoke pot your whole life you DON’T NEED other medications
ABC doesn’t KNOW jackshitola about anything.
Good for these people!
Been smoking for over 50 years. Never felt better.
Literally all the cannabis Legends we all know are still here and alive and well as ever LOL. They age like fine buds.
🤣@ on the rise
News producers act as if they are new to planet earth
I’ve smoked from my teen years and have never had a problem with anything, over fifty
75yr old Army veteran : I gave up free prescription hydrocodone to pay $300 a month for CBD and cannabis. The nerve pain is relieved better with the marijuana products. 🗽⚖️📜🇺🇲
😂 what a pathetic attempt to ‘Demonize’ Hemp products and senior consumption of it. What about the destructive affects of alcohol, opioids and tobacco, Huh?!!Oh yeah, you won’t even talk about that!
Our elders don’t need to be told how to live out the remainder of their lives!
Dr. Marc Siegel is a real piece of 💩 and all of mainstream media e.g.
Fox, ABC, NBC, CNN and CBS news are Corporate shills for their pharmaceutical overlords!
Phuck you and btw, almost all of these comments represent the pulse and mindset of the American people. No Left, No Right. We all see through your propaganda and lies!
Naw, they just came out of the closet!!
Probably drinking more water too lol
Helps with pain, insomnia and appetite. Rather than drugs.
MMJ is the only reason I am functioning after being hit by a car when I was 54 years old. This was my 8th concussion, I think the sativa variety works with my biology and staves off Parkinson’s and stroke. It actually helps my mental accuity. I think everyones biology is different when it comes to MMJ, study it yourself. I use medibles and flower and oil to treat my skin cancer also. I have a lot of anxiety also. For me, it helps everything and I’m afraid of Tylenol effects on the liver. Marijuana is a miracle from God for me, and it is not bad for you unless you are allergic to grass. Grass is benign unless you are allergic to it. It is just common sense, try it, before you have a paradigm about something, please, for the many people who need it to be available and affordable. I could use a hyperbaric chamber, but insurance won’t pay for hyperbaric chamber treatment. Thank God for making the herbs for us to treat ourselves with, God made it for some reason? Who are those that try to refute the facts about medical marijuana. Only a fool without the facts? Mmj contributes a tax base to schools that desperately need funding. There is a 40 million dollar deficit in public funding. There should be no deficits (unless you live in a corrupt state, with a bunch of corrupt martians?) with the kind of income that marijuana contributes to the economy. It is irrefutable. Corruption cannot inherit incorruption
Really Man It’s Been Going On😂😂😂
who cares I had been smoking for years before it was so cool to smoke LMAO now I see it as a fad and don’t even do it. like for real it does not help you. just dopes you up until you pass out and you wake up groggy. it’s funny because they are doing something to it
THC heals nerves
the meds the prescribe has risk so what’s the difference. the meds kill or gives you more issues, the food is not real food, stuff is in our water, the air is not clean, our government is corrupt, most of us are poor, soooooooo why not get lit as things get worse
Seniors eating the gummies 😂
One study shows jack.
They’re gonna be dealing with a lot of inflammation.
I listen to all these pharmaceutical companies and the side effects are worse than the disease. I’ll take my weed anytime.
Exercise and diet. Diet and exercise. Don’t drink alcohol. It has no saving graces.
good
Oh wow, what a surprise. You really gone ask that dumb question, ask your government or pharmacist. 😂 That make profit off of the black community & other people of different cultures.
the hippie generation… of coarse they are
It’s because they’re seeing there’s no side effects like there is in prescription drugs.
Our days are numbered. Let us enjoy ourselves.
It may not add years to your life. But will for sure add life to your years.
Multiple bong rips a day
Keeps the Doctor away!!!
It cured my chronic back-pain & neuropathy.
😂😂😂😂 should of seen us in the 60s protesting to make it legal 😂😂😂😂😂 oh we got old 😂😂😂😂
Hello!?!?! It’s one of the only natural ways to deal with anxiety. This world certainly makes you anxious nowadays.
Yeah because they’re finally realizing all the propaganda with reefer madness was bulshit from big tobacco
It’s the weed, not the experimental, untested mRNA products, that much I know😂?
We got something better to do?
well so called doctor you don,t know what the hell your talking about there is a risk these seniors will now live longer & healthear there is a risk pharmacudical companies will loose some money & also a risk there will be less alcoholics & and all the misery atached to that there is also a risk these people will have a much better existance now the y have found cannibis thankyou god for your miracle green plant thankyou
Those admitted to using but those probably smoking since the 70’s now it’s legal so ok to admit 😮
Likely because the medical system is completely broken, plus when you’re old who really cares its not like you have to get up for a job.
It is NOT the THC that interacts with prescription drugs. It is the CBD. Inform yourself before reporting. It can cause buildup just like grapefruit inhabits the liver from processing. All you hear is demonization. The argument is so biased. What about the chemicals and addictiveness of Doritos and Cheetos???
I am an old 68 year old Female who smokes cannabis daily. I do not take any ALLOPATHIC medicine. When I get tired of smoking, I simply quit. When I desire to smoke, I smoke.
You bet. 12 year breast cancer survivor here. No chemo. No 5 year pill with 100 side effects. Quality of life, not quantity. Certain groups of people drink alcohol and destroy lives.
THC has no Bad Health Effects…
Safer than all of the opiods on the market and work much better.
People don’t only use weed or people who don’t work out, don’t walk and too lazy to move around because if you’re moving around, you don’t need cannabis, you know, it’s uh, deal with your arthritis are things like that, if you you, if you use it, you will not lose it, but if you stop using it, you will lose it, that’s just every day saying.If you move every day, you will keep moving.If you stop moving, you’re gonna move less
I dont want to hear nothing about the risk of Marijuana as long as cigarettes are sold, advertised, and promoted because its very hypocritical…..
Get real ! Old and retired gets boring, so they spark up the day with the morning blunt .
I SMOKE DAILY to keep myself off of narcotic chemicals for back pain.
Puff, puff, passes
🚬😶🌫️
Yeah right sell them alcohol and pills instead
They got their data skewed. It’s not more seniors are using, but all the young hippie/Gen X stoners are now becoming seniors. And there is a lot of us. 😉
No surprise – remember what era we were teens and young adult?????