To think that smoking weed outside in the summer is anti social

A couple of months ago, the Met had a big crackdown on drugs. There’s some stuff about it here: https://news.met.police.uk/news/almost-300-arrests-and-95-county-lines-shut-down-during-met-week-of-action-481169.

One of the results was that 210 vulnerable people were safeguarded. When people think of cannabis, I think they think of cheerful hippies growing plants in their back gardens … but the people running cannabis farms are the scum of the earth and the people buying cannabis are criminals who enable the abuse of vulnerable people.

Am I comfortable with judging people who buy cannabis from poor kids on scooters? Hell yes!

It's antisocial regardless of the time of the year. At my work, get some customers that absolutely reek of weed, which affect my asthma. Fortunately now working on the shop floor, I can go in the back or outside for a few minutes to clear my lungs.

Had an asthma attack caused by having several customers coming in together stinking of weed.

I'm sure the variants of cannabis are getting more pungent in recent years

Yabu

I totally get where the OP is coming from, Im also in a small terrace and my elderly neighbour constantly smokes weed. Everytime you open the window to the back it just smells like old cats piss out there!
He even used to sell it from his house as well....many police visits ensued but nothing could be done really as he never got caught.

Keir Starmer has said that he doesn’t plan to change the drugs laws if Labour get in. I think it more likely that tobacco will end up being banned for young people. It may be that my children won’t be able to legally buy cigarettes.

Massively. Horrible horrible smell.

Only if you don’t share t.

Sorry for not looking properly at your suggestions.cant see legalisation happening anytime soon,too many forces at play...IE the conservative party.

Thank you for your reply to my post. Can you explain what your point is please?
Do you disagree with me when I say that many of the problems associated with cannabis would be removed if cannabis were not prohibited?

Tell that to the parents of the murdered kids.

Not a fan at all. My neighbours smoke it. Luckily seems to be infrequently, but it stinks.

Is absolutely disgusting. Why do many think its ok? Also loath smokers and vapers.

glad i dont have neighbours. Seriously.

Yes, they need to unpurse their catbum mouths and see what all the fuss is about.

You are spot on there.

I hate the smell of the stuff with a vengeance but the police resources are tied up to be able to deal with, which is why they target the dealers.

I have spoken to the police about it. The main road close to where I live reeeeeeeeks of weed! Crazy losers stoned at the wheel, if they had brains they'd be dangerous.

Ironically, there are a few on this thread that could use a joint

I took this to mean that whenever the OP has some leisure time and would like to enjoy her garden, her neighbours seem to be smoking cannabis. Presumably they don’t smoke all day because they’d be at work (or the OP is at work and doesn’t know whether or not they are smoking).

These things don't happen because of cannabis they happen because cannabis is prohibited and that drives it into the hands of criminals.
Cannabis should be legal for recreational as well as medicinal use and available at a reasonable price, if that happened no one would need to buy it illegally.
Growing your own should also be legal, that way you can legally get it for free.

i dont mind the smell

You CONSTANTLY smell of it because of your next door BUT ONE neighbour?

Come off it. Are you joined at their hip?

I know you quoted someone else but I use weed for pain relief and also have a prescription for 60 mg codeine up to 4x per day, so thought I’d chime in.

I’m really sorry you’re in so much pain. The analgesic effects are difficult to describe. For me, weed feels like my body becomes lighter and the pain sort of floats away. I might still be aware of it but it doesn’t bother me as much. So it’s similar to opiates in some senses, but the effect is almost instant after not very much. It also makes me feel deeply relaxed, and very in tune with the sensations in my body. You don’t get the side effects of opiates such as constipation, nausea and that awful intense itching.

I personally vape it, using PAX. It still smells but not anywhere near as much as smoking it, and it doesn’t linger like smoke either. I vape indoors. SS won’t take your kids away for vaping a bit of weed, they have way bigger things to worry about.

I hope you don’t mind me asking you questions, but how do you find weed helping with pain in comparison to opioids? I’ve tried so many medication due to my pain and have been on constant doses of Dihydrocodeine daily, for years. I was thinking about cannabis as I know it’s a ‘natural’ form of pain relief and I wouldn’t have to take opioids anymore. I know someone who works for one of the medical cannabis companies who told me how much it costs and I was thinking how much more expensive it is than ‘the streets’. Baffling how they can charge that much knowing the people who will pay it often have no other option. Due to finances I would have to go the illegal route.

Sorry for another question, but how do you consume it? And do you get scared of getting caught due to it being illegal? I’m a bit of a worrier and would be scared of smoking it and getting arrested and my child being taken away by social services all over me smoking a bit of weed. I just really am considering it though as I’m in so much pain daily I barely can leave my home.

Just ensure you don't subject others to your smoke! Everyone can do as they like but keep it inside, no reason for neighbours to also inhale it.

Of course it's anti-social, discuss it with them and ask them to please stop. If they love it so much, they can smoke inside. It's illegal! Utterly selfish behaviour from your neighbours.

And people get killed over it.
Liverpool drug gang shootings.
Innocent people murdered in the crossfire.

Go over after the next time they smoke it and ask if they can do so elsewhere.
Offensive to us or not, they can be considerate, hopefully.