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title: 'Let later life be the age of irresponsibility'
date: '2019-03-31 14:32'
author: 'Sonia Sodha'
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description: 'Why shouldn’t older people in a care home be able to dabble in drugs that in controlled forms are actually less harmful and addictive than booze or tobacco? '
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[center]![Age of irresponsibility](age-of-irresponsibility.jpg "Age of irresponsibility")[/center]

[Drug trips, not broken hips: let later life be the age of irresponsibility](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/31/drug-trips-not-broken-hips-let-later-life-be-age-of-irresponsibility) by Sonia Sodha

Surely surrendering to hedonism rather than misery would be better in a care home