Well, sonny-boy, you got another think coming! 85% of Grandparent Respondents Favor Marijuana Legalization, According to GRAND Magazine Reader Poll - Yahoo! News 85% of Grandparent Respondents Favor Marijuana Legalization, According to GRAND Magazine Reader Poll Online Magazine for Grandparents Releases Response Results to Op-Ed Question Posed in its March/April Issue St. Petersburg, FL. (PRWEB) May 26, 2011 Attitudes about the criminalization of marijuana may be changing among the elders of our society, as the more than 70 million of the baby boomer generation, one to widely experiment with recreational drug use, have and will become grandparents. GRAND Magazine, the online magazine for today's grandparents, released today results from their poll question which appeared in the March/April issue. It asked readers if it was time to legalize marijuana. 85% responded that they agreed it was. The reader respondents who are pot proponents argued in their responses that it is hypocritical to outlaw pot when cigarettes, alcohol and fat-laden foods are legal but account for so many health issues among our population. They point out that marijuana is used to treat medical symptoms such as pain and nausea, and that in some states it is legal for shops to dispense medical marijuana. The billions that are spent in the U.S. on policing and courts related to this issue could be spent on better schools or infrastructure. Grandparents who are part of the baby boomer generation (those born from 1946 to 1964)(1) have a unique perspective on marijuana, having come of age during a time when pot use became mainstream. 21st century grandparents are a group with a significant influence on the country’s youth as they are the primary caregivers for more than 6 million children(2). In fact, approximately 75 percent of all non-parental care of children is provided by a grandparent(3), representing a large shift in family dynamics. Now it seems that as they guide and influence new generations, they view marijuana use increasingly as a harmless indulgence rather than a gateway to a lifetime of drug abuse. They got similar results from an AARP poll a few years back, so this isn't a fluke! It's NOT your grandparents slowing down legalization! (Is it your apathy that is slowing us? ) As a group, seniors are for legalization! We mainly support it to protect YOU, our grandkids, but a lot of us are learning about medical usage, too! So what have you done lately to get cannabis legalized? WE aren't stopping you! Granny
Interesting results. But the voting group responsible for the Prop 19 failure in California was the 65+ group. Every other generation had at least a 51% majority in favor of legalization. Perhaps the readers of the magazine are more informed than the rest. I'm not saying we should wait until they die. That's just silly. Our marketing campaigns should be targeting the older generation. We should talk to our grandparents about legalization and question their opinions on the subject.
That would be a good idea to have a campaign that targeted an older audience. We could show them how they could most likely replace some of the expensive medication they have to take all the time with good old cannabis. Growing your own pain medication would probably help alot on a fixed income.
In terms of the politics of legalization, pro-legalization groups MUST target seniors. They are the biggest voting block and can be easily swayed if you market it right. Market cannabis as the medicine it is.
we just need to help them realize that 9/10 of their "old people" ailments can get some relief from MJ all non smoking consumption methods need to be explained to them as well
In a way, pro-legalization groups need to target pot smokers (!), so many of whom are, I believe, under a mistaken belief that medical cannabis acceptance will lead to legalized marijuana. Need to light a fire under the butts of responsible marijuana users who aren't sick!
You'd be surprised how many "older folks" smoke weed. I know I do. The people that we need to educate are the younger people that don't exercise their constitutional right to vote.
Yep. I think the voting percentage last election cycle was around 31%, so it's not just younger folks, it's everybody. As long as people don't care enough to go out and vote, nothing will change.
Older folks were smoking weed 40-50 years ago and are still going strong believe me. Even among the kounterkulture kids who eventually wimped out and became republicans. But the REAL old guys, the ones in their 70's through 90's who really run everything, didn't and don't and HATE it. See hyper-rich guys are soft, and if well preserved from the effects of natural life, last indefinitely, unfortunately. ; )