Weed Buzzkill

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Bringing it to the forefront aids in health discoveries, not demonic reefer madness.

“When you burn something, whether it is tobacco or cannabis, it creates toxic compounds, carcinogens, and particulate matter that are harmful to health,” Cohen said in an email.

However, edibles may also play a role in heart disease, according to a May 2025 study.

“We found that vascular function was reduced by 42% in marijuana smokers and by 56% in THC-edible users compared to nonusers,” Dr. Leila Mohammadi, an assistant researcher in cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN in a prior interview.

The danger of high potency weed
None of the studies included in the new meta-analysis asked users about the potency of THC in the products they consume. Even if they had, that information would be quickly outdated, Silver said.

“The cannabis market is a moving target. It is getting more potent every day,” she said. “What’s being sold to people today in California is 510 times stronger than what it was in the 1970s. Concentrates can be 99% pure THC. Vapes are over 80% THC.

Weed Buzzkill

Weed High

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Butterfly Weed

Pacific Grove City Council is set to take a major step forward in implementing a voter-approved cannabis retail program. In Wednesday’s meeting, city officials will hold a first reading of amendments to the city’s Cannabis Licensing Ordinance and vote on new administrative procedures and licensing fees.

The storefront will be limited to one location, situated no closer than 1,000 feet from schools, youth centers and daycare facilities, as mandated by Measure M. City staff emphasized the program’s alignment with the city’s financial sustainability goals, though administrative costs are still undetermined.

Weed High

P.G. Fires Cops In Schools

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Afraid of guns? Or give the student one less resource to go to when being abused by teachers?

PGhs Speling

The board’s decision not to continue the program comes after an incident in September 2024 in which a transient who trespassed on the P.G. High threatened to shoot a school employee. In November 2023, another man vowed to kill P.G. High’s former principal after wandering around
inside the city’s middle school.
School board member Jennifer McNary pointed to numerous reasons she didn’t want a police presence at P.G. schools.’ ‘I’m not in favor of guns on campuses,” McNary said.

P.G. Fires Cops In Schools

Wild Fish Manager Getting Deported

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Add to the list of legal fails at Liz Jacobs’ P.G. restaurant.

Wildfish menu

Juan Carlos Contreras, 43, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement officials June 4, according to the owners of Wild Fish on Lighthouse Avenue, where he’s worked for five years. While Contreras has lived in the United States for about 25 years, immigration officials have started efforts to deport him.

according to Monterey County Superior Court documents, he was arrested Feb. 4, 2018, and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, excessive blood alcohol content of nearly twice the legal limit, DUI with a previous conviction within IO years, and hit-and-run. In October 2022, Contreras again pleaded guilty to DUI and enhancements of excessive blood alcohol and multiple DUIs in exchange for prosecutors dropping the other charges.
A plea agreement reviewed by The Pine Cone shows that, in exchange for the deal,  Contreras signed a form that stated, “I understand that if I am not a United States citizen, that my plea of guilty or no contest may result in Immigration consequences such as deportation, exclusion from  admission into the United States, and denial of naturalization or amnesty”

Wild Fish Manager Getting Deported

Cal Am HQ Leaving P.G.

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Country Club Gate becoming a ghost town?

The relocation will centralize Cal Am’s field operations employees and office staff, including customer service. A listing for the building by commercial real estate firm Mahoney & Associates, said “the property is conveniently situated along the Highway 68 corridor between Monterey and Salinas.” The building is located between Upper and Lower Ragsdale drives. California American Water has been located on Forest Lodge Road in Pacific Grove since 2007.

Cal Am HQ Leaving P.G.

Chinesium Battery Starts Fire At Forest Grove School

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Add this to the list of hazards we are warned about at Forest Grove.

fire inside a Pacific Grove classroom Thursday morning caused by a lithium-ion-powered battery was prevented from spreading after a quick-thinking teacher used sand her students play with to put it out, the Monterey Fire Department said.
Firefighters were dispatched to Forest Grove Elementary School just before 10 a.m., while summer school was in session. Division Chief Justin Cooper said the origin of the fire was a portable voice amplifier, a device teachers use to boost their voices in the classroom

Chinesium Battery Starts Fire At Forest Grove School

Family Suing Pebble Beach Over Missing Relative

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. . the body was never recovered. Alien abduction or ?

At about 1:30 p.m., the Dengs paid the $12.25 entrance fee to Pebble Beach and eventually made their way to the China Rock lookout area along 17 Mile Drive.
The complaint claims Deng and his family got out of the car and “stood on the dirt and grassy area near the rocks to view the ocean.”

“When Xue Deng turned around, his father was gone,” the lawsuit says. When the family “looked out to the ocean, they saw Guoqiang Deng struggling in the water as he was swept away by the waves. ” Because of the “treacherous waters,” first responders used a drone and helicopter to search for the elderly man, but they did not find him, the suit says. “To date, Guoqiang Deng’s body has not been recovered, and he is presumed dead.”

Family Suing Pebble Beach Over Missing Relative

Knock! Knock! Land Shark? Mormons?

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Fire inspectors out door knocking for fire prevention but there is no door to knock on for the fuel infested Washington Park.

GW Park Fuel 1

It’s a change many residents didn’t anticipate, coastal neighborhoods, long thought to be relatively safe, are now officially in the wildfire danger zone.”We presume in Carmel that we’re fairly safe,” Michael Spicer said.

However, the new Cal Fire hazard maps show otherwise. One Monterey resident said he wasn’t surprised by the updated risk designation.

“It doesn’t surprise me that it’s, on a high, fire zone. Yes. Because, as you know, we live in a forest,” Leonard Levenson said.

In response, Cal Fire has deployed six inspectors to visit homeowners, educating them about vegetation management, structure hardening, and defensible space, the key factors that can reduce wildfire damage.

Knock! Knock! Land Shark? Mormons?

Most Popular New Attraction: A Flame Broiled Burger Joint

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Whatever brings ’em in. Too bad the last fast-food place this side of the tunnel is gone.Carl's Jr flames

The burned-out husk of the Carl’s Jr. building on the corner of Lighthouse and David avenues draws passersby with their phones out, snapping photos of the pile of rubble that neighbors the Pacific Grove Tourist Information Center and is a stone’s throw from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Monterey Fire Division Chief Justin Cooper says insurance investigators are still combing the property to try to determine the cause of the fire, which remains unknown. Due to the severity of the damage, the cause may never be discovered, but Cooper says it doesn’t appear the fire was set intentionally.

Most Popular New Attraction: A Flame Broiled Burger Joint