MARIJUANA: LAST CHANCE
Dear Dr. Schoenfeld:
An eighty-year-old friend of ours has been hinting that he'd like to smoke some grass. We would be happy to turn him on, but only after assessing the medical advisability of doing so.
He's in perfect health mentally and physically and has no record of any outstanding problems. What do you think? p.s. Please hurry!
In the nineteenth century, marijuana might have been touted as a "rejuvenator" because, in common with children, its users seem to be especially sensitive to color, sound, smell, and touch.
Tobacco and alcohol interests, who would most likely control and distribute marijuana in combustible and edible forms were it as freely available as the drugs they represent, might promote newpot which "makes you young again." The mind boggles to think of the associated advertisements.
Certainly, there seem to be many people in their fifties and sixties who use marijuana with no apparant harmful effects. Mrs, Garnet Brennan, ex-principal of the Nicasio (California) School, admitted at age fifty-eight that she had been smoking marijuana regularly for eighteen years. But medical experience with octagenarian potheads is limited.
Your eighty-year-old friend and you should also consider the legal realities as well as the medical uncertainties. I doubt that he would like to spend a large part of his remaining life in prison. If geriatric use of marijuana continues to increase we may soon see headlines like "Senior Citizens' Center Raided" or "Police Seize Nursing Home Inmates."
"(AP)—A police sweep of Miami nursing homes resulted in the arrest of 458 patients, whose ages averaged eighty-seven years. Many were apprehended as they attempted to escape in their wheelchairs. Twelve police officers were caned and several others threatened by outraged, crutch-wielding . . ."
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