More Americans over age 50 are smoking marijuana than ever before. Are my parents among them?

Bwahaha

Here’s something to think about: There are about as many boomers using cannabis today as there are high-school students doing the same.

This is actually a bit romantic:

For a 57-year-old retired schoolteacher in southeastern Ohio, smoking has become an evening ritual with her husband. She’d given up a weekly habit in 1975, only to be reintroduced by her son 25 years later. (First they shared a joint to celebrate his engagement; then he helped her fashion a beer can into a rudimentary bong.) Now she and her husband enjoy a few puffs as they watch the sunset through the kitchen window. “It’s really a treasured part of our day, just calming down from whatever, chewing over what was going on,” she says.