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The mature stoner: why are so many seniors smoking weed?

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-15 00:39|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Cheaper than booze and no hangover?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-15 04:04|| 2019-01-15 04:04|| Front Page Top

#2 At this point, why not?
It's like the ship's doctor in Martin Cruz Smith's "Polar Star", who thought that you should save drunkeness and smoking for maturity, because when the bad symptoms show up, it's too late anyway.

Posted by ed in texas 2019-01-15 07:17|| 2019-01-15 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 There are no 'do-overs' in life, only lists of things we'd rather not have seen by our grandchildren.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-15 07:25|| 2019-01-15 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 It ain't cheaper than booze if you buy it in a legal Nevada dispensary.

Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2019-01-15 07:46|| 2019-01-15 07:46|| Front Page Top

#5 I was given to understand it was CBD oil, which does not contain high-inducing THC, that has most of the medical properties. And that CBD is best used as a tincture or pill, not smoked.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-15 08:39|| 2019-01-15 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Pushing back on the recent study that weed is bad for you.

Posted by Bobby 2019-01-15 09:26|| 2019-01-15 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 STDs are up among the nursing home folks as well.

We should legalize everything for folks over 70.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-15 10:16|| 2019-01-15 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 "CBD" = "no road rage"

Posted by 746 2019-01-15 15:50|| 2019-01-15 15:50|| Front Page Top

#9 @ #5 IIUC, Oral CBD needs to be taken at a higher dose because it's filtered by (and in turn toxic to) the liver. Vaping bypasses the liver and so it can be taken at a much lower dose to achieve the same blood level. That's the extent of what seems to be known.

That being said, IDK if I buy all the CBD_as_cure-all hype. I dearly wish that it was true, but I'll rely on my skepticism and Stoicism for now.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-01-15 17:25|| 2019-01-15 17:25|| Front Page Top

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