{"id":83174,"date":"2025-09-09T03:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/seniors-embrace-cannabis-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:55:16","slug":"seniors-embrace-cannabis-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/seniors-embrace-cannabis-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors Embrace Cannabis: Here&#039;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thomas-lee-7_mpfj5Mqrk-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1770\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/420intel.com\/blog\/seniors-embrace-cannabis-heres-why\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thomas-lee-7_mpfj5Mqrk-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors Embrace Cannabis: Here's Why\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important;max-width:50%;float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>At a recent gathering in California\u2019s Trilogy retirement community, Don Searles showed up with a special treat: homemade peanut brittle infused with marijuana. Hosted by 74-year-old Gayle Crawley, the party reflected a growing trend \u2014 more <strong>seniors<\/strong> are experimenting with cannabis than ever before. Between 2021 and 2023, cannabis use among Americans aged 65 and older increased by 46%, according to a study published in <em>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ptq-16.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/420intel.com\/blog\/seniors-embrace-cannabis-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seniors Embrace Cannabis: Here&#8217;s Why<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent gathering in California\u2019s Trilogy retirement community, Don Searles showed up with a special treat: homemade peanut brittle infused with marijuana. Hosted by 74-year-old Gayle Crawley, the party reflected a growing trend \u2014 more seniors are experimenting with cannabis than ever before. Between 2021 and 2023, cannabis use<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/seniors-embrace-cannabis-heres-why\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":83175,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18774,18948],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83176,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83174\/revisions\/83176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}