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    Is cannabis the answer to older people’s booze problems? | Stephanie Theobald

    Baby boomers and Generation X-ers, take note: mindful drinking is not the only solution to mindless drinking
    by Stephanie Theobald Mar 09, 2018 2 minutes
    ‘The number of deaths caused by drug or alcohol poisoning among the 50 to 69 age group has shot up.’ Photograph: Radius Images/Alamy

    I heard some gossip recently about a sixtysomething Madonna-era DJ who had to be sectioned by his PR last summer at a music festival because he’d taken so many drugs. Also whooping it up at that festival was a former pop star “completely off his nana” on booze. Which may sound funny, but his friends were seriously worried because it keeps happening

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