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.”