All posts by Nikki Lastreto
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Surviving India Without Ganja
Longtime cultivators try traveling sans cannabis. I was blessed with the good fortune of being born in the right place at the right time — San...
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The Harvest is Here
A California cannabis farmer looks to the last harvest without stringent state regulations. Autumn and harvest, it’s such a special time of year in the...
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California: A Cast of Characters
The people are what make the cannabis community come to life. Occasionally I am asked what brought me to Mendocino County, this special corner of...
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Stewards of the Land
The land that now hosts a Mendocino County cannabis farm has a past, which should be recognized and preserved. Without the land, we are nothing....
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Mendo Marijuana: The Time of Reckoning Has Come
A report on the state of cannabis from a ganja farmer at the heart of the Emerald Triangle. The tension in the air up here...
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The Drought Days Are Over
Reflections on the challenges of growing outdoor cannabis. It may sound trite, but really, what a difference a year makes. Last year at this time,...
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Cannabis: It’s Getting Better All the Time
A longtime cannabis cultivator explores the blessings of the modern day. It’s easy to sit around and complain about how difficult it is to morph...
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Discovering Cannabis: The Summer of Flowers
The Summer of Love sets the stage for a lifelong relationship with cannabis. In the Summer of Love, 1967, I was an awkward 12-year-old girl on...
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Pesticides & Pot: In Praise of Clean Cannabis
Healthy consumption of cannabis starts with organic growing practices. It was quite the headline News from NBC-TV last month: “Pesticides and Pot: What's California Smoking?”...
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Spreading Positive Vibrations & Cannabis in the New Year
I ventured south to the big city this past weekend and it was an eye-opener indeed. Up here in the hills of Mendocino, we live...
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Postpartum Harvest
I am not a mother, but I imagine growing cannabis is something like having a baby girl. You spend nine months watching it grow from...
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Cannabis is Real Medicine
It’s been a month since my hip replacement operation, and as I wrote in my last article, it was an opportunity to use cannabis only...
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The Medicine Makers: Choosing Cannabis to Heal Post-Op
The time has come to really walk the talk. Tomorrow morning I will get a hip replacement, and I intend to replace opiates with cannabis...
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The Fight to Preserve Mendo’s Marijuana Heritage
If you had told me 10 years ago that hippie farmers from the hills would come out to meetings, I’d have laughed. And yet there...
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Sheriff’s Stamp of Approval: Adapting to California’s New Medical Marijuana Laws
I’m still feeling a little numb. This afternoon a Mendocino County sheriff’s deputy drove his huge white SUV through our gates — a sight I...
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Proper Dosing for Edibles
We’ve all seen it happen or experienced it ourselves: the debilitating effects of consuming too much cannabis. You may chuckle about it in retrospect for...
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Coming Into Compliance in Mendocino County
If you had told me just a few years ago that a bunch of hippies from the hills of Mendocino County would be sitting in...
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The California Green Rush
It was February of 1849 when my first ancestor, Nicola Larco, set foot on California soil. He arrived by sailing ship from Peru, unaware of the Gold...
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Stepping Outside of the Cannabis Bubble
Living in the heart of the Emerald Triangle, it is easy to get lost in our reality bubble where everyone lives, breathes and smokes cannabis....
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Accentuate the Positive for Real Progress
As we attempt to make our way wisely through the current maze of politics and permits in this emerging world of legal cannabis, I have...
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