Writer and Producer Sharon Letts began her life's work at the age of 24, as a flower gardener in Southern California, under the shingle The Secret Garden - one of her favorite books as a child.

When a local television programming director asked Sharon to produce and host a gardening show, her company name became Secret Garden Productions. Producing visiting gardens series, In and Out of the Garden; airing in Southern California, Riverside, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties for three years. Locations included public and private gardens throughout Southern California; including, Catalina Island and the California Desert.

Sharon went on to Executive Produce and Host, Off the Beaten Path, a California travelogue for PBS with a focus on art, food, and wine; with education on conservation and sustainability. The series included a three-part visit to Sonoma County's wine country; and a one-week stay at the historic Dorland Mountain Ranch (then, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony). A remote, off-the-grid artist colony in the hills of Riverside County. Sharon also included a documentary on Kate Sessions, architect of Balboa Park in San Diego; placing First for TV production at the San Diego County Fair.

After working as a Field and Segment producer for documentary and magazine shows in Los Angeles, Sharon was brought up to Humboldt County in Northern California to produce a news show. While working in media in Humboldt she presented with breast cancer, Lobular carcinoma.

Because she was working in the cannabis capitol of the world, Sharon was given a strong cannabis oil made by longtime Southern Humboldt farmer and remedy maker, Pearl Moon of The Bud Sisters. In two and a half months, the oil successfully put the cancer into remission, with only scar tissue remaining; while helping her do away with numerous prescription medications and supplements, changing her life and career forever.

“I’m from the 70s," Sharon explained. "Cannabis has been my medicine for a very long time, I just didn’t know it until I had cancer in my 50s. I support both recreational and medicinal use, but honestly feel, they are one in the same. I like to say, medicate to recreate. Cannabis has become my only medicine. It became my gateway drug to other healing plants. Since ingesting plant-based remedies I've felt better than I have in years on the prescription medications, and I don't think that's a coincidence."

Today, Sharon writes internationally for many publications, with her work translated into several languages (see list of series below). Her focus is on patient profiles, telling the “anecdotal” stories of healing happening globally now with the use of cannabis products.

Coming back to television full-circle, Sharon’s developing documentary, magazine and reality shows on cannabis from the series she’s written. Her books, Cannaopolis and Humboldt Stories (winner 2016 Tokey Awards), with magazine series Toke Stories, have been written into a screenplay for television series, Cannaopolis. Also an e-Book on Amazon.

"Even the most ardent, self-described “stoner” is getting medicinal benefits from merely smoking. Your endocannabinoid system doesn’t care that you just want to get high, the medicinal benefits are there. That edible eaten in a recreational state becomes a medible very quickly when the partaker is dealing with real ailments.

My life’s work has become my passion, in educating as many humans as possible on the many benefits of cannabis and other plants as the superfoods our bodies need to be well."

Current Series Sharon Writes

As a documentarian from television production and a features writer from newspaper publishing, Sharon is a storyteller writing about the anecdotal stories of healing from cannabis and other healing plants within many series for several magazines around the world, as follows:

Higher Profiles/High Times online

Profiling high profile people and celebrities in the cannabis industry/space.

What’s in Your Stash?/High Times online (also developed as TV show w/sizzle reel)

When we look into someone’s stash, we are looking at how they medicate and why.

Face of the Farmer/Cannabis Now Magazine online

Profiling heritage and legacy cannabis farmers.

Women of Weed World/Weed World Magazine (print/web)

Profiles under-acknowledged women making a difference in the cannabis industry, globally.

Weed Traveler/Weed World Magazine (print/web) (developed as TV show)

Sharon is sponsored, hosted, and toured for this series. Visits center around events; farm, manufacturing facilities and dispensary tours; visits with industry leaders, medical professionals, and cannabis patients.

Kitchen Apothecary/Weed World Magazine (print/web)

This series of essays includes how to/DIY/recipes, with anecdotal stories of healing.

Daily Dose/Vegas & Tahoe Cannabis Magazine(s) (print/web)

A day in the life of cannabis patients, with dosing, protocols and sometimes recipes.

Adventures with Santa/various publications, globally

This series follows Santa as he makes his way around the world on Christmas Eve, visiting high profile people and places and educating along the way. Subjects/locations have included, Jim Belushi on his farm in Oregon; Snoop Dogg in Los Angeles (featuring Martha Stewart & Seth Rogan); Gisele Fetterman in Braddock, Pennsylvania; The Teeside Cannabis Club in England; and The Funky Skunk in County Cork, Ireland.

Past Series & Work

Celebrity Profiles/various series & publications, globally

Cover features: Julian Marley, Tommy Chong, Willie Nelson, Melissa Etheridge, Kyle Turley, Dr. Carl Hart, Jimmy Hendrix via brother, Leon; Rick Simpson, Jay Jackson, aka: Laganja Estranja, Olivia Newton-John, with husband, John Easterling; Second Lady of Pennsylvania, Gisele Fetterman; Jim Belushi, Jane West & Jazmin Hupp of Women Grow, Jim McAlpine of 420 Games.

Humboldt Medicine/The Emerald Magazine

Profiling farmers and remedy makers from Northern California (Book in Progress) This series initially ran in The Emerald Magazine, Humboldt County’s first cannabis magazine, and can still be found online.

Humboldt Stories/The Arcata Eye

Winner of the 2016 Tokey Awards. Originally published as Behind the Curtain for the Arcata Eye in Humboldt County, Northern California. This series puts a human face on the once covert grow scene in Humboldt County. Characters were used in Cannaopolis, developed into a TV series. Now an eBook on Amazon

Cannaopolis/Dope Magazine

Fictional series based on fact of the Humboldt County, California grow scene. Originally published as a monthly series in print for Dope Magazine (Seattle, Washington) Developed into a TV series, with characters culled from Sharon’s other series, Humboldt Stories and Toke Stories.

Toke Stories/Toke of the Town

Fictional stories based on fact from the underworld of the one-room grow house. Main character, Lewis B. Toklas lives on in Sharon’s other series, Cannaopolis, developed into a television series. This series originally ran in the Seattle Weekly’s weed blog, Toke of the Town.