[420 Girl]

It must be said about folks in the East Bay: We may rack up some pretty staggering statistics when it comes to smoking pot, but we certainly do it with class.

Case in point being Stephen DeAngelo, owner of the Harborside Health Center, which definitely isn’t your run-of-the-mill medical marijuana dispenser. Since December, DeAngelo has been systematically testing pot as part his Analytical Laboratory Project. In the business of legal weed, many people don’t realize (or maybe just choose to ignore) that the plant can definitely harm you—or, as DeAngelo puts it, “It’s not cannabis that kills people, it’s all the shit that’s in it.”

“Shit” largely referring to pathogenic mold, which can lead to aspergillus infection—something that sounds really freaking gnarly, if you ask us. DeAngelo’s project concerns itself with testing all the marijuana that comes through the facility for that mold, as well as classifying the samples according to THC concentration. The center is constantly at risk for law enforcement raids, but the good people of Harborside consider their task worthy of persevering, in spite of all odds.

Clearly, there are plenty of us who couldn’t agree more.

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