Time was, all the good weed came from Mexico. After all, that's where it'd been grown for who knows how long, up in the hills of Sinaloa, Michoacan and Oaxaca. Now, the good stuff is grown north of the border, and with the legalization of cannabis for medical purposes now 15 years in the making, it's big business. There are seemingly countless strains to keep track of when it comes to California's biggest cash crop, and new techniques and technologies are being developed all the time that any serious young student of cannabis cultivation needs to know.
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So it's perhaps at least somewhat ironic that GGECO University, a Rancho Santa Margarita-based cannabis-educational outfit whose acronym stands for God's Green Earth, is now offering classes in Spanish. The school, sort of a SoCal version of Oaksterdam or a marijuana version of ITT Tech, has just announced it is offering Spanish-language versions of its popular two-step educational course in cannabis.
GGECO's basic course covers cannabis law, medical cannabis, cooking, horticulture and budtending, while an advanced course features classes on running a dispensary or nonprofit, as well as more horticulture classes. For more information, you can visit GGECO's Spanish-language website here.
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).