A Child Hears About Locoweed

Jean Anderson wrote from Greenville, South Carolina, to say that when she was a kid, she watched a lot of Western movies and TV shows like Rawhide and Wagon Train.

And so from all her viewing, she knew that loco weed was something that made cattle herds act crazy.

And in the evening when the local news came on, she got really puzzled.

The loco news.

And sometimes the news is very loco.

You can’t believe what people get up to.

Whether it’s the crime report or politics.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I remember watching the news when I was a little kid and thinking, guerrilla warfare?

There are actually guerrillas fighting?

Yeah, that’s a super common one.

Yeah.

So loco weed is usually gemson weed, though, right?

Sometimes it’s just marijuana.

Right.

There’s that, too.

Right.

But, yeah, it causes neurological effects in cattle and horses.

She thought it was the loco news.

Yeah, the loco news.

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