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More Older Americans are Smoking Marijuana
Posted by CN Staff on April 25, 2018 at 10:18:28 PT
By Keith Humphreys
Source: Washington Post 
USA -- U.S. marijuana consumption is more prevalent today than during the conservative 1980s. Surges in drug use are often attributed to “kids these days,” but new research shows that the change has been driven not by stereotypical longhair youngsters but by the gray-haired and balding set.Researchers William Kerr, Camillia Lui and Yu Ye integrated 30 years of survey data from over 40,000 participants who reported on whether they had used marijuana in the past 12 months. Only two age groups showed a significant rise in use. Compared with older Americans 30 years ago, Americans age 50 to 59 and 60 and older today are a remarkable 20 times more likely to use marijuana.
Even though marijuana use was consistently more prevalent among the young than the old throughout the 30 years that were studied, and the use rate of young adults has risen over the past decade, the use rate of people age 18 to 29 was about the same in 2015 (29.2 percent) as it was in 1984 (29.9 percent). This was also true of Americans age 30 to 39 (14.8 percent in 2015, 18.1 percent in 1984) and age 40 to 49 (11.7 percent in 2015, 9.6 percent in 1984).This pattern of results led the team to conclude that they had identified a cohort effect rather than a trend affecting the entire society. Specifically, the researchers noted that people born before World War II very rarely used marijuana at any point in their life, but as this population passed away, the marijuana use of subsequent generations became increasingly felt in greater total population use.The signature change occurred with the baby boomers who were born from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Many generational habits begun in youth die hard. Just as the boomers engaged in an unusually large amount of crime in their youth and continue to do so far later in life than did their parents, they also have also carried the heavy substance-use patterns of their adolescence into their senescence.Whether the generations that follow the boomers will use as much marijuana is hard to know. On the one hand, children often rebel against their parents’ substance use habits, including at times becoming more abstemious. On the other hand, all Americans from this point forward will live in the presence of a legal, for-profit industry that markets and distributes marijuana and may wash away long-standing generational differences in a tide of commercial pot.Keith Humphreys is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and is an affiliated faculty member at Stanford Law School and the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.Source: Washington Post (DC)Author: Keith HumphreysPublished: April 25, 2018Copyright: 2018 Washington Post CompanyContact: letters washpost.com Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ URL: http://drugsense.org/url/CI01F1cbCannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml 
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Comment #12 posted by Had Enough on May 08, 2018 at 12:36:30 PT
More research needed...
Not to mention the fact that "Reefer Madness" was still in full effect 30 years ago too...so maybe some answered correctly...but I think many knew better that to admit to a stranger that they were breaking the law...These guys are spinmeisters...
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Comment #11 posted by Had Enough on May 08, 2018 at 12:29:33 PT
Researchers need to research teir research...
""Researchers William Kerr, Camillia Lui and Yu Ye integrated 30 years of survey data from over 40,000 participants who reported on whether they had used marijuana in the past 12 months. Only two age groups showed a significant rise in use. Compared with older Americans 30 years ago, Americans age 50 to 59 and 60 and older today are a remarkable 20 times more likely to use marijuana.""30 years ago if a stranger asked someone if they smoked pot...what would the answer be...This research is all skewed...as usual...we are watching the fall of the prohibitionists here...You know...the trashing tails of the dinosaurs in a last ditch effort to save their livelihood...at the expense of others...i.e.: jail...monetary expense...loss of employment...etc...I wonder if these guys tell others that if cannabis is re-legalized...they will have to euthanize their pot sniffing dogs... creeps...
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Comment #10 posted by Soup herb on May 08, 2018 at 11:48:35 PT:
Hope
Thanks for looking. Was to promote original music for original people...as were all are are we not.As a borderline diabetic I love to have been soup on a regular basis...it's actually really good for one's health...
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Comment #9 posted by Hope on May 08, 2018 at 10:54:30 PT
Soupherb
I've thought about your moniker before, but I didn't think of it having to do with a band and music. Checked out the website. Cool!
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Comment #8 posted by Soup herb on April 30, 2018 at 20:43:28 PT:
Hope
Soup herb is the name of the Album By "Bean Soup Project" that I was invited to do the studio work drumming on a select number of tunes (6). I have been a musician longer than a user. I started playing in teen centers in 1967. One year before I became teen age. It is a small reminder to me of what was once a great country and the time where the middle class had a say in government policy. Today with AI the world is moving quickly away from needing a middle class and I feel this is a horrible situation the same as I feel the Insanity of prohibition of Cannabis or Hemp...support live music. Another freedom being prohibition controlled and censored. The freedom of speech is being eroded right out from under our feet by the "fake news" control by filthy rich owners of the media...Tune into NPR in your area for healthy news and issue debates...
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Comment #7 posted by afterburner on April 30, 2018 at 19:17:36 PT
Making the Same Mistake as Washington State???
Doctors' group wants to scrap Canada's medical cannabis program.
CBC Radio · 5 hours ago.
Monday, April 30, 2018
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/scrap-medical-weed-women-in-space-and-more-1.4636793/doctors-group-wants-to-scrap-canada-s-medical-cannabis-program-1.4636810
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Comment #6 posted by Hope on April 30, 2018 at 09:47:20 PT
Keith Humphreys is most likely
a good buddy of that other "Intellectual"... Kevin Sabet, also, interestingly enough, a professor of psychiatry. Obviously, I think, they are both missing a gear or two in their acclaimed and avowed intellect. He's likely a dues-paying member of Patrick Kennedy's little club... Smart Approaches to Marijuana. Yeah right. We know how "Smart" those approaches are. They're not. Patrick Kennedy... that other great intellect... the one that drives around at night... asleep... under the influence of big pharmaceuticals butterfly medicines... but he's got some really smart ideas when it comes to the cannabis plant.Soupherb (Superb?) ... When I volunteered for the Media Awareness Project... I learned the difference between opinion pieces... like editorials and well... opinion pieces... and news. Sometimes it's hard to tell. Opinion pieces make for good reading and learning sometimes. Sometimes... not so much. It's just their opinion. Their idea. What they think. That's one thing that bothers me about sifting through the news... you have to look close to make sure if it's news or just someone else's two cents worth. This is Humphreys' two cents worth. That's all. I'd say there's a danged prohibitionist burr in these boys' saddle blankets. Lol!
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Comment #5 posted by John Tyler on April 29, 2018 at 10:45:08 PT
wrong conclusion
“Just as the boomers engaged in an unusually large amount of crime in their youth and continue to do so far later in life than did their parents, they also have also carried the heavy substance-use patterns of their adolescence into their senescence.” Hold on there…that is pretty pejorative language for an intellectual. Unusual amount of crime… really? Is it criminal to not to want to be oppressed? Is it criminal to work towards a more just society? Is criminal to work to correct the errors of the past? Is it criminal to seek out your own creativity and spirituality? Older Americans are retiring. They have aches and pains. They have time available. Why shouldn’t they be able to seek out that which eases their pain, lightens burden, and brings joy to their hearts? It is way better than getting strung out on prescription pain killers and anti-depressants.Keith Humphreys is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and is an affiliated faculty member at Stanford Law School and the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, and blah, blah, blah. I sure he means well and is all self-righteous, arrogant, prejudiced and all that and he has looked at all of the numbers and statistics and has come up with the wrong conclusion.
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Comment #4 posted by afterburner on April 26, 2018 at 09:05:56 PT
Gray-haired and Balding Set
Is this supposed to be a Politically Correct way of calling us old? I'd rather just be called "old" instead of being judged by appearance.
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Comment #3 posted by Soup herb on April 26, 2018 at 02:15:16 PT:
Never ceases to Amaze me
just how much fake news/propaganda is generated by the media. Using such a decorated Educator as the all knowing Guru. Same as the Neurologist Carson, like fish out of water...
"For they no not what they are doing"...
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Comment #2 posted by Hope on April 25, 2018 at 18:49:20 PT
Keith Humphreys esteemed perspective...
no doubt. This seems to be an opinion piece. Fluff... with a huge whiff of prohibibitionist resentment coming off it.Prohibitionists don't like legalizing times? Tough. Time for bustin heads is over. Sometimes the law has to change. This is one of those times.
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Comment #1 posted by Hope on April 25, 2018 at 18:41:24 PT
What?
"Just as the boomers engaged in an unusually large amount of crime in their youth and continue to do so far later in life than did their parents, they also have also carried the heavy substance-use patterns of their adolescence into their senescence."That's the first I've heard about that "Unusually large amount of crime" business.
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