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Chasing Life

Sanjay Investigates “Weed 7: A Senior Moment” Pt. 1

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Chasing Life is taking a short break and will be back with new episodes next month. This week, we are sharing Dr. Gupta’s most recent documentary examining the potential benefits of medical marijuana. His investigation explores the fastest growing group of cannabis users, people who are 65 and older. This special report originally aired on CNN on August 6, 2023. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's Sanjay, and I wanted to let you know that the team and I are already

0:05.0

hard at work on the next season of Chasing Life.

0:08.7

In the meantime, I wanted to share a documentary on something that I've been spending a lot

0:13.2

of time reporting on over the last 10 years, cannabis, medical marijuana.

0:18.8

You know, when I first started reporting on this topic, I was pretty skeptical about

0:23.6

the utility of cannabis as a medicine, but that's the nature of investigative reporting.

0:29.3

In the process of this reporting, I became convinced that it could help people, it could

0:34.2

even heal people.

0:35.9

On a recent episode of the whole story with Anderson Cooper, I shared my seventh documentary

0:41.1

on the topic of medical marijuana.

0:44.0

And this one is called Weed Seven, A Senior Moment, and it explores the fastest growing

0:49.8

group of cannabis users, people who are 65 and older.

0:54.3

Over the next two weeks, I want you to join me on a journey that's going to take me

0:57.6

across the country and all around the world to meet experts and scientists who are focused

1:02.9

on this important work, plus some very special people, people you're going to want to meet,

1:08.8

people who are aging and living better, thanks to medical marijuana.

1:14.7

Welcome to the whole story, I'm Anderson Cooper.

1:16.7

In less than 10 years, one quarter of U.S. population will be over the age of 65.

1:21.8

That means more people requiring more frequent and advanced medical care, which often means

1:26.3

more pills.

1:27.3

But there's a growing movement in the medical and a scientific community that's urging

1:31.3

less pills and more plants.

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