The biggest group of people moving towards medical marijuana to replace perscription pills are the elderly. Yeah, the generation that first told us to “tune in and tune out” then told us to “just say no” is having another change of heart.
Recently, an unlikely name came out to admit that he too uses cannabis to relieve pain.
Per Hightimes
In an new interview with Esquire UK, British acting legend Sir Patrick Stewart confessed, among other things, the fact that he relies on a topical medical cannabis spray to alleviate problems associated with his hands.
“I mean, my main problem is my hands don’t work very well,” he said. “But thanks to cannabis, they work much better than they used to. Thanks to the law in California now, it’s just a spray that I put on.”
Stewart said he’s been to doctors about this problem but they usually dismiss it as part of the aging process.
“You get to an age where you go to the doctor, you tell him how old you are and he just shrugs his shoulders and says, ‘Oh, is that it?’” Stewart continued.
When Stewart, who lives in New York, was asked what he did when he was in the United Kingdom where medical cannabis is illegal, he was blunt but diplomatic.
“I can’t answer that question,” he said.