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Uh, the generation that made getting high an art form are now seniors?

The article does, in fact, mention this before going into the other reasons.

> One reason for the cannabis craze is that today’s seniors are yesterday’s hippies. Our analysis suggests that more than half of the seniors who use cannabis today started more than 15 years ago.

The fact is so plain, there does not need to be an article about it.

I found the link to a decrease in suicidality interesting, but I suppose it's personal.

I thought they were in senior government by now

The two are not exclusive, apparently.

Really all this happened before: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/17/us/new-presidency-boomers... The moment the dead went from counterculture to the unofficial band of the clinton white house was the real shift IMHO.

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