Is Your Grandma Growing Pot?

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2. Introduction The New York Times ran one heck of a story covering the growing trend of grandparents getting into the medical marijuana industry. How so? Well, it turns out (and likely to no surprise of people who work in the industry) medical marijuana tends to be very popular with seniors as a way of managing pain while cutting down on the amount of pills they have to take to manage their daily life.

3. Introduction In fact, many of the elderly people interviewed for this story discussing how they had no idea how many people they knew were also using medical marijuana.

4. The Big Stigma This can actually be a barrier for many senior citizens when it comes to adapting medical marijuana. If they’ve never used it before, they can still feel a great stigma attached to the drug that many younger people today simply don’t feel.

5. Why They Are Growing Marijuana However, the article discusses that one of the main reasons older folks, particularly older women, are getting into actually growing pot is because it’s one of the few businesses without a bias against the elderly.

6. Why They Are Growing Marijuana If you grow great pot, people will buy it, regardless of the age of the person selling it, whereas most jobs tend to avoid hiring older workers to fill out their payrolls.

7. Benefits of the New Industry This shows a rarely talked about upside to the new industry. The fact is, when implemented properly, medical marijuana truly is an equal opportunity business across age, race, and gender.

8. Benefits of the New Industry In letting the elderly take control of their own pain relief, as well as their own income and livelihoods, medical marijuana is benefitting them more than many pundits believed it would.

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