Tag: seniors

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May 5, 2015
05/05/2015
Catherine Hiller’s New Novel Details a Lifetime of Cannabis

Catherine Hiller’s New Novel Details a Lifetime of Cannabis

Hiller chronicles her experiences during the half-century she has spent as a daily weed smoker. Hiller is highly educated, holding a doctorate from Brown University and is...
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November 24, 2014
11/24/2014
Video of ‘Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time’ Goes Viral

Video of ‘Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time’ Goes Viral

Apparently when preparing to shoot the video it took a little effort to find some grandmas that had never tried cannabis before.
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August 13, 2014
08/13/2014
Medical Cannabis Gets 87-Year-Old Colorado Woman Kicked Out of Housing

Medical Cannabis Gets 87-Year-Old Colorado Woman Kicked Out of Housing

It truly sounds like something published by The Onion: an 87-year-old who has rented the same subsidized apartment for the last five years is being kicked out...
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July 29, 2014
07/29/2014
Poll: Majority of Floridians Support Legalized Marijuana; Super-Majority Endorse Medicalization

Poll: Majority of Floridians Support Legalized Marijuana; Super-Majority Endorse Medicalization

Nearly nine out of ten Florida voters support legalizing the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes, and a majority of Floridians support allowing adults to possess the...
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July 28, 2014
07/28/2014
Could Cannabis Replace Spinal Injections?

Could Cannabis Replace Spinal Injections?

Cannabis is one of the safest and most effective anti-inflammatory agents in existence, which I suspect is a large part of why it is such a powerful...
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July 16, 2014
07/16/2014
Poll: Six Out Of Ten Americans Support Retail Marijuana Sales In Colorado

Poll: Six Out Of Ten Americans Support Retail Marijuana Sales In Colorado

More than six out of ten Americans – including majorities of self-identified Democrats, Independents, and Republicans – support the regulation and retail sale of marijuana in Colorado,...
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March 28, 2014
03/28/2014
Troopers ‘License Plate Profiling’ in Idaho for Marijuana

Troopers ‘License Plate Profiling’ in Idaho for Marijuana

An Idaho state trooper arrested and searched a 70-year-old Washington man solely because of his license plate from Colorado, where marijuana is legal, the man claims in...
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March 28, 2014
03/28/2014
PPIC Poll: Slim Majority of California Voters Say Legalize Weed

PPIC Poll: Slim Majority of California Voters Say Legalize Weed

Public Policy Institute of California released survey results yesterday; 53% of California voters favor marijuana legalization and 44% oppose. 60% of independents and 57% of Democrats favor legalization,...
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March 11, 2014
03/11/2014
Marijuana Use on the Rise Among Aging Baby Boomers

Marijuana Use on the Rise Among Aging Baby Boomers

The most recent data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration show that marijuana use has increased among individuals over the age of 50 in the past...
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February 26, 2014
02/26/2014
Marijuana Helps Seniors Get Off Drugs

Marijuana Helps Seniors Get Off Drugs

Medical marijuana is helping seniors across the country trade some of their pills for pot, and get off drugs that cause as many problems as they solve.
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January 24, 2014
01/24/2014
For First Time, CBS News Poll Has Majority for Marijuana Legalization

For First Time, CBS News Poll Has Majority for Marijuana Legalization

For the first time since the CBS News Poll first asked the question back in 1979, a slim majority of Americans support marijuana legalization. In the latest CBS...
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January 16, 2014
01/16/2014
Parents Come Out of the Pot Closet

Parents Come Out of the Pot Closet

Adults, from parents to baby boomers, are lining up to purchase recreational cannabis in Colorado. Many are giving marijuana a try for the first time ever or...
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January 8, 2014
01/08/2014
David Brooks, Tina Brown, Joe Scarborough, and Pat Buchanan All Hate Weed Cause They’re Old

David Brooks, Tina Brown, Joe Scarborough, and Pat Buchanan All Hate Weed Cause They’re Old

What do David Brooks, Tina Brown, Joe Scarborough, and Pat Buchanan* have in common, besides their lily whiteness and comfy careers nurtured in the ivory halls of corporate media?...
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January 7, 2014
01/07/2014
CNN Poll: 55% Support Marijuana Legalization

CNN Poll: 55% Support Marijuana Legalization

A CNN/ORC International survey released Monday has a solid majority of Americans supporting the legalization of marijuana. Some 55% agreed that marijuana should be legal, with 44% disagreeing. CNN...
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October 31, 2013
10/31/2013
Product Review: Golden Organic Healing Oil

Product Review: Golden Organic Healing Oil

Golden Organic Healing Oil is unique in a cannabis community that offers a myriad of oils and elixirs that provide topical and ingestible relief for a plethora...
By: Anna Diaz
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October 7, 2013
10/07/2013
Cannabis Cure: Restless Leg Syndrome

Cannabis Cure: Restless Leg Syndrome

Two weeks ago, after years of talking my face off about the benefits of cannabis, my parents finally agreed to try some tinctures. The original plan was...
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September 9, 2013
09/09/2013
Youth Drug Use on Decline, Most Media Fail to Notice

Youth Drug Use on Decline, Most Media Fail to Notice

One of the two annual major drug use surveys in the US released its results this week, coinciding with National Recovery Month, according to the news release from the...
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September 4, 2013
09/04/2013
Fibromyalgia and Cannabis: Helping My Mother See Green

Fibromyalgia and Cannabis: Helping My Mother See Green

I recently had dinner with my mother, who is in her late 60’s, and has long suffered from fibromyalgia, a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by...
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August 30, 2013
08/30/2013
Forbes: Should Your Aging Parent Try Medical Marijuana?

Forbes: Should Your Aging Parent Try Medical Marijuana?

In an article on Forbes, Carolyn Rosenblatt describes the experience of her 91-year-old mother-in-law using medical marijuana for the first time: What we see so far is that...
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August 12, 2013
08/12/2013
Reflections on Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s CNN Documentary: WEED

Reflections on Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s CNN Documentary: WEED

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, created a documentary, simply titled WEED, based on a year’s research. The show focused on medical cannabis and aired last night. Overall, I was...
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