{"id":10039,"date":"2024-02-07T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/02\/06\/study-more-older-adults-are-using-cannabis-post-pandemic\/136043\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T07:24:04","slug":"study-more-older-adults-are-using-cannabis-post-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/study-more-older-adults-are-using-cannabis-post-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: More older adults are using cannabis post-pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/study-more-older-adults-are-using-cannabis-post-pandemic\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/US-NEWS-MED-CANNABIS-POSTPANDEMIC-GET-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/study-more-older-adults-are-using-cannabis-post-pandemic.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/study-more-older-adults-are-using-cannabis-post-pandemic-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hunter Boyce | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/p>\n<p>A new study, published in the\u00a0Cannabis and Cannabinoids Research\u00a0journal, found more older Americans are using cannabis today than before the pandemic. According to researchers with the\u00a0University of Michigan\u2019s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, roughly 1 in 8 Americans over 50 currently use the substance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the stress of the pandemic and the increased legalization of cannabis by states converged, our findings suggest cannabis use increased among older adults nationally,\u201d addiction psychologist and study lead Anne Fernandez told the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2024\/02\/06\/study-more-older-adults-are-using-cannabis-post-pandemic\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles Hunter Boyce | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A new study, published in the\u00a0Cannabis and Cannabinoids Research\u00a0journal, found more older Americans are using cannabis today than before the pandemic. According to researchers with the\u00a0University of Michigan\u2019s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, roughly 1 in 8 Americans over 50 currently use the substance. \u201cAs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6892,8232,9,10633,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6893,8234,10634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}