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You remember the old stoner cliché. The hippy with the shades, tie-dyed shirt, dreadlocks and doobie burning away on that rusty roach clip. But smoking cannabis is just one method of medicating with cannabis.

In the past, marijuana might not have been seen as an integral part of a healthy lifestyle. Just a couple of decades ago, it was mostly known as a recreational drug, but in recent times, the concept of what cannabis can be has changed in a lot of ways.

Maybe we just love the smoke rings? To no one's surprise, cannabis consumers are most likely to choose to ingest their cannabinoids via smoking as opposed to other routes of administration, according to data published in the journal Addiction.

No one has died from a marijuana overdose and there is no evidence of anything more lasting than embarrassment. That certainly is not the case with alcohol.

Growing old might not be for sissies, as the adage goes - but a little cannabis goes a long way towards smoothing out those golden years. At least, that's the growing consensus among seniors.