{"id":8230,"date":"2018-04-26T00:56:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2018-04-26T00:56:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:56:20","slug":"your-hippie-parents-are-the-ones-driving-up-weed-use-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/your-hippie-parents-are-the-ones-driving-up-weed-use-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Hippie Parents Are The Ones Driving Up Weed Use, study Finds"},"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\/your-hippie-parents-are-the-ones-driving-up-weed-use-study-finds\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Everyone knows pot use is on the rise. But it\u2019s not Gen Z or Millennials rolling spliffs at music festivals who are driving the increase \u2014 it\u2019s their parents.<\/p>\n<p>People over the age of 50 are 20 times more likely to smoke weed now than they were 30 years ago, according to a new study published in the journal \u201cAddiction.\u201d By comparison, pot use has stayed pretty stable in the younger generations.<\/p>\n<p>To come to that conclusion, researchers from the Alcohol Research Group analyzed self-reported data from over 40,000 U.S. adults compiled over the past three decades. In 1984, about half a percent of people between 50 and 59 said they smoked weed in the past year. But in 2015, that group had grown to nearly 12 percent. And less than half a percent of people over 60 were likely to smoke in 1984. In 2015, about 7 percent said they\u2019d lit up.<\/p>\n<p>Older people\u2019s increased use has less to do with the liberalization of pot policies across states (despite Attorney General Jeff Sessions&#8217; best efforts) and more to do with a generational trend. People over 50, who grew up during the 1960s and &#8217;70s, are simply more comfortable with weed \u2014 and maybe other questionable choices like tie-dye and listening to Debby Boone.<\/p>\n<p>Not much has changed for 18-to-29-year-olds, though. In 1984, 29.9 percent of people in that age range reported having used pot in the past year. Nearly three decades later, they\u2019d dropped slightly to 29.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely those same 18-to-29-year-olds from 1984 never forsook their old friend Mary Jane.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/your-hippie-parents-are-the-ones-driving-up-weed-use-study-finds\/\">Your Hippie Parents Are The Ones Driving Up Weed Use, study Finds<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows pot use is on the rise. But it\u2019s not Gen Z or Millennials rolling spliffs at music festivals&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/your-hippie-parents-are-the-ones-driving-up-weed-use-study-finds\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/your-hippie-parents-are-the-ones-driving-up-weed-use-study-finds\/\">Your Hippie Parents Are The Ones Driving Up Weed Use, study Finds<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1616,9,1,3],"tags":[4184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230"}],"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=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}