NOT HEALTHY –
June 20, 2025 – Where are the calls for senior-focused prevention? This is no different, after all, from a near-50 percent jump in teen use over two years. The fact that these are in general older people doesn’t make the finding any less worrying. Adults with Cannabis Use Disorder are 60 percent more likely to experience heart failure, strokes, or heart attacks than adults who do not use marijuana.
In Ontario, hospital admissions and emergency room visits related to marijuana jumped 26-fold among people 65 and older between 2008 and 2021; between 2005 and 2019, the rate of marijuana-related emergency-room visits in California for that group rose almost 19-fold. More disturbingly, the Ontario study also showed that anyone going to the hospital for marijuana suffers a 72 percent higher risk of dementia than the general population.
As more and more data emerge, it’s becoming clearer that seniors represent an at-risk population for this drug, just as much as kids do.
