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WHAT ABOUT THE OLDSTERS?

A new survey of older Coloradans gauged their attitudes to legalization and consumption habits.
Benzinga

  • The survey found seniors, the fastest growing group of cannabis users, are “blurring the lines between MED and REC.”
  • Lead researcher Brian Kaskie, a professor of health policy at the University of Iowa, said: When we started this research many of my colleagues suggested that this was just about retired baby boomers entering old age who have come back to cannabis as a way of returning to their youth… “But we learned older adults who are using cannabis…are experiencing symptoms and conditions that seem amenable to cannabis.”