{"id":9083,"date":"2020-02-24T16:50:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/02\/24\/marijuana-use-is-rising-sharply-among-seniors-over-65-study-says-and-there-are-serious-risks\/134683\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T16:50:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:50:44","slug":"marijuana-use-is-rising-sharply-among-seniors-over-65-study-says-and-there-are-serious-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-use-is-rising-sharply-among-seniors-over-65-study-says-and-there-are-serious-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana use is rising sharply among seniors over 65, study says, and there are serious risks"},"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\/marijuana-use-is-rising-sharply-among-seniors-over-65-study-says-and-there-are-serious-risks\/\" 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\/2020\/02\/Marijuana_Holiday_Advertising_71305-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/marijuana-use-is-rising-sharply-among-seniors-over-65-study-says-and-there-are-serious-risks.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/marijuana-use-is-rising-sharply-among-seniors-over-65-study-says-and-there-are-serious-risks-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/02\/24\/marijuana-use-is-rising-sharply-among-seniors-over-65-study-says-and-there-are-serious-risks\/134683\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Sandee LaMotte | CNN<\/p>\n<p>The sweet scent of baking cookies wafting from grandma\u2019s house may be mixed with a more pungent aroma these days. The smell of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers of American seniors over age 65 who now smoke marijuana or use edibles increased two-fold between 2015 and 2018, according to research published Monday in JAMA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/02\/24\/marijuana-use-is-rising-sharply-among-seniors-over-65-study-says-and-there-are-serious-risks\/\">Read the rest of this story on MercuryNews.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sandee LaMotte | CNN The sweet scent of baking cookies wafting from grandma\u2019s house may be mixed with a more pungent aroma these days. The smell of marijuana. The numbers of American seniors over age 65 who now smoke marijuana or use edibles increased two-fold between 2015 and 2018, according to research published Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8226,6892,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8227,6893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083"}],"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=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}