Where the Grass Is Greener
The slur was enough to make every Cornhusker huffif not puff. In a lengthy report on U.S. marijuana laws, the Wall Street Journal last week reported that the green-flowered cannabis weed from which "grass" is produced "flourishes in temperate climates; one botanist estimates that 17% of the field foliage in Nebraska is marijuana." Replied outraged Nebraska agronomists: "Utterly ridiculous . . . absolutely crazy . . . silly."
Actually, they said, only 1% of the state's 77,227 sq. mi. has gone to potand neighboring Iowa has even...