Years ago I went to see Arlo Guthrie at the Hollywood Bowl. It was a terrific concert, highlighted by Guthrie telling the audience—through a somewhat hazy atmosphere generated by a few in the audience who were surreptitiously smoking pot—”There's two ways of looking at the drug problem: There's them that say there's too much drugs and them that say what there is ain't good enough.”

I'm sure both those positions and a few others were bandied about in the governing agencies of the state of Nevada when they encountered the situation my morning newspaper referred to as “Nevada Faces Pot Shortage.”

As you might imagine, I spent several seconds trying to figure out what mistake had been made by the journalists who wrote that headline. What kind of “shortage” could they be facing? Clearly the headline could not mean what it seemed to say.