Believe it of not, but after working in a dispensary for over 6 years now, I can without a doubt declare that the largest percentage of new users are the AARP crowd!
Our little old grammas and grandpa's are wanting to toss their prescribed drugs out the window and are willing to give cannabis a try.
Thank Dr. Gutpa for coming out wit Weeds, 1,2 and 3 on CNN and do these three documentaries on the benefits of using cannabis. I really think cannabis is becoming more and more acceptable, and when people are talking about it on TV, why not give it a try!
Well, I hope people's reason's for trying cannabis have a little more to do with wanting help with their personal issues than it's the newest fad, but honestly whatever it takes to get cannabis to be accepted is the real goal. When children can try it and see if cannabis reduce their debilitating seizures? Or other chronic issues. Can concentrated amounts of cannabis oil cure cancer? Help people win the battles of PSTD?
So as cannabis becomes legal in more states, and more states start allowing cannabis to legally be used as a medicine the interest in "will cannabis work for me?" blossoms. And with a smile on my face, I am proud when I get to say "No, It's not the kids I serve, It our AARPers!" They keep us in business, they are our real business! Them and women over the age of 40, they are the next up and comers in the using of cannabis. They are finding that cannabis is what they really need to help their medical issues and gets them through the day. I hear more and more patients say, " I would rather use cannabis than take a pill." or "I hate the side affect that prescribed medicine causes me."
And cannabis is an all in one kind of medicine. You can use it for nausea, and to increase appetite. For pain and to decrease muscle spasms. It can be used for insomnia, and then used for uplifting qualities that help with depression and PTSD.
I feel our older generations are wiser, know more and therefore where some would think they would want to try cannabis, it's actually the opposite. Our older generation are actually shocking me a little and coming in by the masses. They may seem shy to begin with, but we are big talkers at our dispensary and so getting them as excited about trying cannabis is easy. And with the industry blossoming with the latest and greatest of vaper pens, pre filled cartridges, cannabis consumption is just getting more and more convenient and is selling like hot cakes!
So when you think to yourself, (If you think this way) that all these cannabis dispensaries, or having dispensaries open where you live are going to corrupt our children, Please take it from a 6+ year bud tender, your teens get there cannabis from their friends and (sorry) but their parents stash. Not trying to sneak into a dispensary. It's your parents and your kids grandparents!
Along with the normal talks about not wanting to use pills for sleep and pain our AARP crowd talks a lot about how they use cannabis as a anti-depressant. A creativity drug. Some say they use to write, and draw and dance. Patients even have discussed how using cannabis helps their libido and is especially fun when your partner is willing to try it too.
So whether you are a true believer of cannabis or a skeptic and anti cannabis person, cannabis use is growing. More and more people are willing to give it a try.
And to my surprise it's our older wiser generation.
So the next time you smell the sweetness of the green look twice, it may be your older neighbor lady not the teenage kid next door!
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