More seniors using marijuana as boomers age - The Denver Post
More seniors using marijuana as boomers age - The Denver Post 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. Use of the country's most popular illicit drug is growing among the AARP set as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older. The number of people 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 percent to 2.9 percent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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