More and more older adults are using marijuana

Photo by Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images More and more older adults are using some form of marijuana, according to new survey data, and their doctors aren’t prepared to talk with them about it.The percentage of adults over the age of 65 who said they’d used some form of cannabis in the past year was 75 percent higher in 2018 — when 4.2 percent said they’d used it — than it was in 2015, according to new data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.