Now that many in this demographic of campus radicals and hippies are receiving Medicare, they are looking to gain more access to recreational and medical marijuana. In the case of the latter, they would like it to be covered under Medicare.

“A lot of the things marijuana is best at are conditions which become more of an issue as you get older,” Taylor West, deputy director of the Denver-based National Cannabis Industry Association, told Reuters.

“Chronic pain, inflammation, insomnia, loss of appetite: All of those things are widespread among seniors.”

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