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Why more American seniors are getting high
- bookofjoe 11mo agohttps://archive.ph/9Cq6X https://archive.ph/9Cq6X
- lazide 11mo agoUh, the generation that made getting high an art form are now seniors?
- taneq 11mo agoI thought they were in senior government by now
- lazide 11mo agoThe two are not exclusive, apparently.
- dekhn 11mo agoReally all this happened before: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/17/us/new-presidency-boomers-ball-clinton-s-musical-taste-stops-carter-era.html https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/17/us/new-presidency-boomers... The moment the dead went from counterculture to the unofficial band of the clinton white house was the real shift IMHO.
- rideontime 11mo agoThe article does, in fact, mention this before going into the other reasons. > One reason for the cannabis craze is that today’s seniors are yesterday’s hippies. Our analysis suggests that more than half of the seniors who use cannabis today started more than 15 years ago.
- almosthere 11mo agoThe fact is so plain, there does not need to be an article about it.
- rideontime 11mo agoI found the link to a decrease in suicidality interesting, but I suppose it's personal.
- sam345 11mo agoReally poor example for grandchildren etc. Particularly now that plenty of evidence that marijuana can cause psychosis, depression in a subset and a decrease in ambition and drive, and increasingly a cause of traffic accidents.
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- techblueberry 11mo agoYou sound fun at parties.
- labrador 11mo agoThis is a narrow minded take. I come from a family of Irish alcoholics. Most of the younger generation uses cannabis instead of drinking and avoids the devastation from alcohol that my generation and older experienced.
- almosthere 11mo agoIf you don't like losing half your IQ points, then I guess this is a narrow minded take.
- aurareturn 11mo agoCounter: I'm going to guess that it's easier to get addicted to weed than to alcohol due to price, pleasure, and no alcohol hang over. Kids especially can get addicted to weed much easier than alcohol in my opinion. I like alcohol but I see alcohol as a social drug. I never drank it alone. I also physically can't drink it too much due to hang over and complete inability to do anything useful after. During covid lockdowns, I was absolutely addicted to weed after I tried it. It had none of the draw backs of alcohol and even more pleasure in the beginning. I was addicted for a while. It was horrible. I became unmotivated, fat from munchies, didn't talk to family or friends, always asked people I met if they wanted to smoke weed with me, was high during remote work, couldn't remember anything because my memory got very poor, had horrible acid reflux from all the smoke. Thankfully I was able to remember what life was like before weed. If you read https://www.reddit.com/r/leaves/ https://www.reddit.com/r/leaves/ you'll see just how many people have been smoking since they were teenagers and are not 30 or 40 and don't remember what life was like.
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- pengaru 11mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiU96IEr0jU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiU96IEr0jU
- FonzeAttack 11mo ago[dead]
- kylecazar 11mo ago"Critics have long denounced marijuana as a gateway drug to riskier substances. Some day it could be considered a life-saving one." That denunciation only ever came from people with low life experience and oversimplified mental models of "bad".
- aerostable_slug 11mo agoI am all in favor of broad cannabis legalization, but there there is something to the gateway theory. Most users of harder drugs indicate past use of marijuana. Additionally, marijuana gives many their first taste of doing business with drug dealers and 'breaks their cherry.' When they decide they want to try something else they have already gained experience locating dealers and engaging with them. Legalizing cannabis helps here because its users won't engage with dealers to score, they'll go to the store and buy a regulated product.
- kylecazar 11mo agoI agree completely that marijuana having been illegal itself affected the statistics. But, the gateway drug idea was itself used as an argument against legalization.
- trimethylpurine 11mo agoCounter example, many people only want to get high on any other drug when they consume alcohol, which isn't sold by drug dealers. We need to be careful with logic problems like, "Most users of harder drugs indicate past use of marijuana." All users of all drugs report drinking water in the last 12 weeks. These kinds of statements don't mean anything, but they sound important to the average reader. Correlation != Causation
- ryandvm 11mo agoNot sure why you're down-voted. It's definitely a gateway drug, but only from the perspective that you've forced people to establish black market financial connections. Once you've figured out how to get something illegal it opens a whole new world.
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- almosthere 11mo agoBecause they are the original hippies? Does this really have to be a question/article.
- orion7 11mo agoThis is so obvious to me that I immediately assumed the title must have meant high school seniors
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