A commenter on another board said, "I was aware they grew some good weed in Santa Cruz, but I had no idea...."
It would be interesting to show this to her and ask if she sees anything she'd have done differently.
It would also be interesting to find out how she got so misinformed. It's one thing to not know something. It's another entirely to positively know something which is false, or, in this case, howlingly, obviously false.