Baby Boomers are abusing marijuana at a higher rate as more Medicare beneficiaries turn to cannabis with ‘little other safe choices for pain or sleep’

 Baby Boomers are abusing marijuana at a higher rate as more Medicare beneficiaries turn to cannabis with ‘little other safe choices for pain or sleep’

People are living longer and looking for ways to ease the symptoms of aging, according to a medical marijuana expert.

Older Americans arent just using cannabis more, theyre also consuming the sometimes-legal-sometimes-not drug in dangerous ways. From 2017 through 2022, rates of health care encounters involving canna…