“If that doesn’t pass, there won’t be a pumpkin farm. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.” As you’re walking around your neighborhood tonight, it will look like pumpkins are a great business (and indeed, “U.S. farmers last year harvested 2 billion pounds of pumpkins”). But like other farming stories, this one is more complex than it seems. And like an increasing number of such stories, this one is about weed. WaPo: Can pot save the pumpkin farm? A multimillion dollar offer to grow marijuana is tearing the ‘World Pumpkin Capital’ apart.