I have my doubts about the amount of seniors who will be using the harder stuff simply because drugs like crack and heroin don't let many live to old age. Still, I know a large number of 50-somethings who smoke pot more so than I know 30 and 20-somethings.
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Number of drug-addicted seniors to surge as boomers retire
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by choice or because of addiction? I know plenty of folk who would never think they were an alcoholic but have 2 or 3 cocktails after getting home each day.
Of course the heroin, cocaine, crack users are in a league of their own.
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every day of their life, they are addicted, no matter what the drug. And most of the potheads I know do it several times a day, or suffer between the times when they can toke up.
Even back when I used to smoke pot I was alway skeptical of the "it's not addictive" claim. I knew people who were high every hour of every day.
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