CNN Reports On A Man That Wants Your Grandmother To Learn About Pot

CNN took a look at the “Silver Tour” — a initiative spearheaded by a man named Robert Platshorn with the aim of inspiring senior citizens to call for the legalization of medical marijuana.

Platshorn, who spent some three decades in a federal prison for smuggling marijuana, shares that, when he was released, “the last thing I expected to do was become an activist.” And yet, he’s now become something of a poster boy for the movement to rally senior citizens around marijuana.

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His generation, Platshorn says “invented marijuana as it’s known today,” and he wishes they’d be more educated about the ways cannabis can treat their physical ailments without the unpleasant — and sometimes lethal — side-effects of other medications.

Check it out, via CNN:

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