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.
