Regarding Cannabis

Throughout most of my adult life (since I was 21 years old)--with the exception of the last 11 years that I have lived in Honolulu--I have smoked marijuana as often, and as regularly (i.e., 2 or 3 joints or bowlfuls a day) as I could.  As I am now nearly 76 years old, that comes to 44 years of fairly consistent, moderate marijuana use--with long, intermittent periods of abstinence.  And, with the concurrence of my case-worker, and upon the advice of my doctor, I expect to resume the practice of smoking (or otherwise ingesting) marijuana sometime within the next month or two:  For both recreational and medicinal purposes; as an aid to study (of languages and philosophy) and to the practice of music, and to relieve the pain of arthritis and edema. Hopefully as well it will stave off memory loss and senile dementia.