High Times’ Outlaw Series is where the people who lived through the real cannabis underground tell their own stories. In this new episode, host Holly Crawford talks with second-generation Humboldt grower Nik Erickson, whose family has been in Northern California since the Gold Rush.
For Nik, cannabis has always been part of the backdrop. His earliest memory is a raid that changed his childhood and showed him what it meant to grow up in the Emerald Triangle during the height of enforcement.
He describes the years of working off the radar, learning how to keep harvests hidden in the mist and hills, and staying clear of the helicopters. It was about adapting to the land, reading the weather, and understanding the risk.
Today, Nik runs Full Moon Farms, bringing the same focus to sustainability, terroir, and sungrown quality that he learned in the old days. His move into the legal market has been deliberate, shaped by the realities of California’s regulatory maze and a desire to protect the integrity of his craft.
The conversation is not nostalgia for a lost era. It is a look at what it takes to carry an outlaw legacy into a regulated industry without losing sight of where you came from.
