This article discusses the use of marijuana by elderly people to help with their health issues, such as nausea, dizziness, pain relief from nerve damage, raising heart rate, lowering blood pressure, etc. In some cases, the use of marijuana has helped elderly people to ease off of their medical drugs. Although it may put some people at risk of falls, impaired cognition, impaired memory, and loss of motor control, it seems to have more positives than negatives. It is legal is some states now but not all. In some cases, children of the elderly people have been the suppliers of their marijuana and has brought some families closer by bonding while "making brownies," smoking together occasionally, etc. Although this sort of sounds ridiculous, if its works, it works! I think it's definitely interesting how something illegal and once so secret and so "bad" that we mostly heard younger people were doing, is now coming up as being beneficial for elderly people to use. Times are changing, that's for sure. I think that this if it truly is beneficial for elderly people to use and doesn't have as many side effects as medically prescribed pills, etc, then more doctors, practices, and states should be more open to medical marijuana (after much research and experimenting with the drug, of course). Like I said, times are changing, so we need to change with them at least a little. Closed minds won't benefit anybody, or the future.
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