Move over you old fart baby boomers and make way for the aging hippies! This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars! Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding. No more falsehoods or derisions. Golden living dreams of visions! Mystic crystal revelation and the mind's true liberation! And aging hippies will RULE!
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Poll finds support for legalizing pot
AARP survey reveals older Americans favor medical use of drug.
By ELIZABETH WOLFE
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Nearly three-fourths of older Americans support legalizing marijuana for medical use, according to a poll done for the nation’s largest advocacy group for seniors.
More than half of those questioned said they believe marijuana has medical benefits, while a larger majority agreed the drug is addictive.
AARP, with 35 million members, says it has no political position on medical marijuana and that its local branches have not chosen sides in the scores of state ballot initiatives on the issue in recent elections.
But with medical marijuana at the center of a Supreme Court case to be decided next year, and nearly a dozen states with medical marijuana laws on their books, AARP decided to study the issue.
“The use of medical marijuana applies to many older Americans who may benefit from cannabis,” said Ed Dwyer, an editor at AARP The Magazine, which will discuss medical marijuana in its March/April issue.
Among the 1,706 adults polled in AARP’s November telephone survey, opinions varied along regional and generational lines and among the 30 percent of respondents who said they have smoked pot. AARP members represented 37 percent of respondents.
Overall, 72 percent of respondents agreed “adults should be allowed to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if a physician recommends it.” Those in the Northeast (79 percent) and West (82 percent) were more receptive to the idea than in the Midwest (67 percent) and Southwest (65 percent). In the South, 70 percent agreed with the statement.
Though 69 percent of those age 70 and older said they support legal medical marijuana use, less than half agreed it has medical benefits. Seventy percent of respondents age 45-49 said they believe in the medical benefits of pot, as did 59 percent of those in the 50-69 age group.
And while 74 percent of all people surveyed said pot is addictive, older respondents were more likely to think so: 83 percent of those 70 and older, compared with 61 percent of those aged 45-49.
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And with Jenne just having celebrated her fiftieth birthday she's a card carrying member and by default so am I. I even have my own card! BRUHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! I wonder what my friends MM, MH and Bob will say about this. I hope to see all three of them at Christmas. I hope to see all of our friends over the holidays if we haven't already!
Via Brian the Red