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Marijuana Use Among Seniors on The Rise

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 10:57am
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by MATT SEDENSKY | Associated press

TAMPA, Florida - In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.

Long a fixture among young people, use of the country's most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and '70s grows older.

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Baby boomers still getting high, report shows

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 3:18pm
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Rates of illegal drug use among people aged 50 to 59 doubled in 2007

WASHINGTON - Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to U.S. government statistics released on Wednesday.

The rates of people aged 50 to 59 who admit to using illicit drugs in the past year nearly doubled from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 9.4 percent in 2007 while rates among all other age groups are the same or decreasing, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported.

"These findings show that many in the Woodstock generation continue to use illicit drugs as they age," SAMHSA Acting Administrator Eric Broderick said in a statement.
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