View from the North 40: That weed is some bad sh-tuff

While the whole country is debating the mary jane, ganja, dank, 420 issue of legalizing marijuana, I’m obsessing over weed of the noxious list kind.

I know. I wrote about noxious weeds sometime in the last year or two. I swear I had every intention to consider it a spent topic, to ignore my single-minded obsession with the idea that weeds are my mortal enemy, y’know, just let the obsessive compulsiveness go. But no.

Blame my day job. Call my boss. I had to interview the county weed control district Coordinator Terry Turner for an article, a nice guy, but a little too effusive about his job, an...