Most states have legal medical marijuana; 10 allow recreational pot. Studies show people 65 and over are the fastest-growing segment of cannabis users.
A group of seniors from an Orange County retirement community check in at Bud and Bloom cannabis dispensary in Santa Ana.
Most states now have legal medical marijuana, and 10 of them, including California, allow anyone 21 or older to use pot recreationally. The federal government still outlaws the drug even as acceptance increases. The 2018 General Social Survey, an annual sampling of Americans' views, found a record 61% backed legalization, and those 65 and older are increasingly supportive.
Relatively little scientific study has verified the benefits of marijuana for specific problems. There's evidence pot can relieve chronic pain in adults, according to a 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, but the study also concluded that the lack of scientific information poses a risk to public health.
Adele Frascella, leaning on her cane, purchases a package of gummy candies she says help keep her arthritic pain at bay.Fashionably dressed with sparkling silver earrings, Frascella confirms with a smile that she was a pot smoker in her younger days. "And I wasn't getting any better," she said, adding that she asked her doctors if she might try medical marijuana as a last resort. They said go ahead, and she found it ended her pain.
People Lee's age — 65 and over — are the fastest-growing segment of the marijuana-using population, said Gary Small, professor of psychiatry and aging at UCLA.
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