When Don Searles went to a recent party, he didn't want to show up empty-handed. So he made peanut brittle using an old family recipe — with a modern-day twist.

"We added the marijuana," he said.

The party was hosted by 74-year-old Gayle Crawley at the Trilogy retirement community an hour east of San Francisco, where lately the golf course has a new competitor for popularity.

Between 2021 and 2023, cannabis use among Americans 65 and older went up 46%, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Crawley said those numbers reflect that marijuana is a "good solution to a lot of medicinal issues."

And with cannabis now legal in 40 states for medical use and 24 for recreational, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures , the stigma is quickly diminishin

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