Retirement Village Members Learn the Basics at ‘Cannabis 101’ Class

Residents living at Sound Vista Village, a retirement and assisted living community in Washington, attended an educational seminar on the basics of medical cannabis. “Cannabis 101” answers the questions that beginners have regarding medical cannabis. Seniors at Sound Vista Village, are eager to learn how to safely and effectively consume cannabis products and the ways they can benefit from medicinal cannabis.

Tracy Willis is director of corporate development at Village Concepts, which runs Sound Vista Village located at Gig Harbor, Washington.  As part of their expanding activities program, Willis looked at a variety of educational areas. According to Willis, one of the questions that the residents of Sound Vista Village asked him most was how to approach cannabis.

At first, the residents of Sound Vista Village were reluctant to purchase cannabis products. Many more of the residents showed interest after watching an educational video about how CBD can alleviate tremors. “We put it out there and nobody would sign up—they were all really curious, the executive director said she would see people walking by the sign-up sheet and (waiting) for someone else,” Willis told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Ultimately the video is the thing that broke the dam. “I don’t know who went first but after one person did it was a full bus.”

The class is being held at Vela, a Seattle-based cannabis retailer that shares its location with Suncliff and Field Day, which are both cannabis-related businesses. The residents of the village were able to observe the grow process first-hand inside Vela’s lab. They learned consumption methods, anatomy of the plant and safety. Some of the topics included “Speaking to your child about cannabis.”

Given the success of their first senior day trip, Vela plans on continuing to invite other retirement communities in the area. According to Willis, more would be willing to come. “This is the first one, but it definitely won’t be the last,” Willis added. “This is just one of our 17 communities, and we kind of piloted this one in Gig Harbor, and we’re going to keep doing it as long as they’ll have us.”