Ever think the day would come when you’d be on the way to Grandma’s house with a goodie bag of marijuana?

According to a report in The New York Times, middle-aged adult caregivers are coming to the rescue with cannabis to help ease a variety of ailments for their ailing elderly parents.

Age and the growing acceptance of medical marijuana are propelling adult children, who in many cases once smoked weed themselves, to supply it for their parents, according to The Times.

A 46-year-old Illinois man named Bryan (who did not give his last name since marijuana is illegal in the Midwestern state) tells The Times he started baking marijuana brownies and ginger snaps laced with the stuff to help his father with a heart ailment and his mother’s dizzy spells and nausea. He says both were asking his help for their growing fear of Alzheimer’s disease and cancer.

When Bryan was a teen, he tells The Times, his parents were strictly opposed to pot.

‘We would have grounded him,’ his mother, 72, tells The Times. ‘We have concerns about the law, but I would not go back to not taking the cookie and going through what I went through. Of course, if they catch […]

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