Elderly Arthritis Patient Sues Disneyworld After CBD Arrest
Disneyworld has long been known to many as the “happiest place on earth.” For…
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Senior Cannabis Use Nearly Doubles, Study Finds
A recently released study reports that cannabis use among those aged 65 and older nearly doubled from 2.4% to 4.2% between 2015 and 2018.
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University of Michigan Poll Shows Older Americans Support Cannabis Legalization
A new poll shows that older Americans support cannabis legalization at a high rate. 80% of participants say they support medical cannabis use.
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Americans age 55 and up are population of the fastest increase of marijuana users in legal states
How medical marijuana could help our aging community to get the most out of…
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National Guard Helicopter Used To Seize 81 Year Old Woman's One Marijuana Plant
A single marijuana plant grown by an 81 year old woman was seized by…
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5 Legal Medical Marijuana Uses For Elderly Patients
Kari L. Franson, PharmD, PhD, BCPP, of the University of Colorado Skaggs School of…
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How Everyone Can Benefit From Daily Cannabis Oil
Video: ‘Vitamin Weed’: How Everyone Can Benefit From Daily Cannabis Oil Cannabis is the…
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Aquadettes
A Brilliant Video That Shows How Medical Marijuana Helps Multiple Sclerosis AQUADETTES: On Life,…
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Researchers Study Methods to Reduce Age Changes in Brain
Researchers Study Methods to Reduce Age Changes in Brain While humans are living longer,…
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Stephen Colbert Tells Seniors "Lay Off Doobage" After Highlighting Laguna Woods Village
https://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/389739/june-15-2011/senior-moment—pot-smoking-seniors? In a hilarious plug for Laguna Woods Village, a retirement community in California,…
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Southern California Seniors Turn to Cannabis in Retirement Community
By Gillian Flaccus | Â AP Joe Schwartz is a 90-year-old great-grandfather of three who…
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Free seminar on the Anti-Aging and Health Benefits of Marijuana
Join Lanny Swerdlow at The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation Medical Clinic for a free…
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"Legalize Marijuana" Claims Grandparents in a New Poll: 85% Oppose Prohibition of the Plant
GRAND, a website dedicated to today’s GRANDparents, and their GRANDkids, asked their readers to…
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Apothecary Senior Citizens Project
By Kandice Hawes | Â OC NORML Chapter President Roughly ten thousand people are becoming…
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AP - Older Patients Turn to Marijuana for Relief
More and more older people are turning to marijuana for medicinal purposes and urging…
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Older Adults Increasingly Use Medical Marijuana for Nausea, Pain
“We’ve already got a medical marijuana collective for people with prescriptions from their doctors,” says Lonnie Painter, 64, who has lived in Laguna Woods Village for 11 years. “Now we’re trying to set up a medical marijuana club so people who are interested can learn more about the medicinal benefits of marijuana.” Painter, a retired restaurant owner, smokes marijuana to ease the chronic pain of osteoarthritis. “I’ve been able to cut back on prescription painkillers by 50 to 60 percent,” he says.
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Medical Marijuana Raises Tough Questions for Nursing Homes
RHODE ISLAND — Every night before bed, Norma Winkler, 82, opens a small jar of cannabis oil and measures out a quarter-teaspoon to mix with homemade applesauce. Soon after she eats it, she drifts off to sleep. Ms. Winkler, who lives in Rhode Island, where medical marijuana is legal, has endured chronic back pain since a car accident fractured her skull and spine at age 15. Operations haven’t helped, and other medicines don’t touch the pain that can keep her up through the night. “It’s really been a lifesaver for me,” Ms. Winkler said of her cannabis oil. “I used to walk into the walls sometimes. I was so tired because I didn’t sleep.”
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