New Canadian Study on Pot for Seniors

Canadian Study on Pot for Seniors later in 2018 10/7/18

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/seniors-pot-national-recommendations-1.4847929 

But seniors, many of whom take multiple medications, also have questions about how cannabis will interact with their prescription drugs and otherwise affect their health

Seniors’ concerns include not just interaction with prescriptions but also the potential of the drug to increase heart rate and the risk of confusion and falls.

So far, one of the biggest pieces of advice Teed has is to take it “low and slow.” He suggests that if clinicians determine that an elderly patient might benefit from cannabis, they should start them on small doses — in part because the drug is more powerful now than it was when they may have tried it in their younger days.