Pubdate: Wed, 20 Aug 2014
Source: Columbian, The (WA)
Copyright: 2014 Ann Harris
Contact:  http://www.columbian.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/92
Author: Ann Harris

EMPLOY MODERATION IN USING WEED

When I was a child living on a farm in Bowman, N.D., my father would
notice an animal out in our pasture running around and acting crazy.
My dad would go out and look to see if loco weed was growing in our
pasture. He would find it, dig it up and destroy it.

Dad told me it was a marijuana weed, which grows in every state in the
continental U.S. (I don't know about Alaska and Hawaii.) It was called
loco weed back then because animals who eat it can go loco. It was
usually our horses.

Why people would want to eat it or smoke it, I don't know. But I'm
glad people are not put in prison for its use unless it is used in the
commission of a crime.

I hope those who use pot do so with clarity so our country is not
destroyed from within by careless drug or alcohol abuse. We can
destroy our country all by ourselves by being careless citizens who
don't care what we do.

Ann Harris

Vancouver 
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