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

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Livingnexttothesmokies · 11/05/2024 10:49

My neighbours are a couple in their late 50s, we get on ok but there's no love lost there- they complain about everyone else all of the time but never do wrong themselves.

Over the last 2 years they've developed a weed habit (it's medicinal apparently) and now the sun is out they seem to take turns chain smoking weed so our garden smells almost constantly of weed. If we leave the windows open it makes our house smell of it too so when they light up we have to close the windows.

Our gardens are narrow terraced gardens so we can't escape it. Aibu to think that constantly smoking weed in the summer when people around you want to use their gardens is anti social?

OP posts:
Starlight7080 · 11/05/2024 15:44

Tell them to buy the gummies instead. It would be better for them as doesn't involve smoking. How anyone uses the medicinal line when smoking it is beyond me.

qwertyasdfgzxcv · 11/05/2024 15:43

TinyYellow · 11/05/2024 11:22

If you live in a terraced house with small gardens that are practically on top of each other, you just need to accept that you live close to other people and have to put up with them.

personally I hate barbecue smells, but if other people want barbecues, good luck to them.

BBQs aren't illegal

Xarrie · 11/05/2024 15:42

It reeks. We always laugh at the ones walking through town at 9am sucking the life out of a joint. Tragic sad acts.

NachoMate · 11/05/2024 15:42

You’re not wrong, it’s hanging and stinks. Speak to them and if they’re decent it may ease. If not then try their landlord if they rent, illegal drugs on the premises are usually a breach of tenancy or the police if they own. My brother is a response cop and will always arrest someone for possession, even if only a small amount because the law is the law at the end of the day and they are expected to set the standard. They’ll be interested in where they are getting it from and feed info into local intelligence so always worth letting someone know.

Voodoohoodoyoudo · 11/05/2024 15:26

I don't think you can stop them smoking weed just because you don't like it. The police aren't interested in people smoking weed only dealing and growing it on a large scale. That's the price you pay for living in built up housing.

SwordToFlamethrower · 11/05/2024 15:22

Any type of smoking is antisocial. It's rank!

Youcannotbeseriousreally · 11/05/2024 15:21

It’s absolutely fucking gross at any time of year and the majority of people that smoke it are also, gross.

OneTC · 11/05/2024 15:11

CruCru · 11/05/2024 14:16

Realistically, weed is not going to be legalised. It was moved to class B because of the link between smoking skunk and mental illness. A year or so ago there was some talk of moving it to class A but that didn’t go anywhere.

America was the Wests crusader when it came to prohibition.

Now they're not bothered and aren't applying pressure to other countries to maintain prohibition.

So yeah it probably will become legal, once they can work out what will sit will enough with the public

Livingnexttothesmokies · 11/05/2024 15:05

I get that other smells like bonfires and bbqs are annoying and intrusive but they tend to only be occasional and last for an hour or two. This really is all day.

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Getonwitit · 11/05/2024 15:03

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 11/05/2024 11:04

No worse that regular smoking, loud music or the dog having a clear out.

Wouldn’t actually bother me. Weed smells much nicer than regular smoking/vaping.

Of course it is and illegal to boot.

PTSDBarbiegirl · 11/05/2024 14:26

Chemical infused skunk smells disgusting and is at the heart of a major MH crisis amongst young men. I wouldn't mind the old school solid Lebanese Hash so much!

CruCru · 11/05/2024 14:16

QueenMegan · 11/05/2024 13:56

Absolutely agree it should be legalised and controlled too. The first thing they should do is add something to dampen the stink

Realistically, weed is not going to be legalised. It was moved to class B because of the link between smoking skunk and mental illness. A year or so ago there was some talk of moving it to class A but that didn’t go anywhere.

mitogoshi · 11/05/2024 14:10

I would be reporting via 101 and filing a report of anti social behaviour to the council every single incidence.

I did this myself and the family left fairly quickly

ItsSerious · 11/05/2024 14:08

CruCru · 11/05/2024 13:33

I am sorry that you need pain relief.

Cannabis hasn’t been legalised. It has been moved up the drug classifications from class C to class B. I do see that there are people on here who don’t like the law but it is the law in the UK. Should the police arrest someone for possession / possession with intent to supply, that the person arrested doesn’t like the law won’t be a good defence.

The people I feel sorry for are the kids on scooters who are supplying this stuff. They are not paid anything like enough to justify the risk of a possession with intent conviction.

Cannabis is legal in the UK for medicinal use, if you have a prescription. I personally take it as an oil but you can also vape it legally. Smoking it is always illegal, though.

ItsSerious · 11/05/2024 14:06

Smoking in general is anti-social. Our neighbour smokes in the garden and it comes into the house (and garden) whenever he does. It's disgusting. Humans are inconsiderate!

Abitboring · 11/05/2024 14:05

No, it's not good. The problem with weed also is that it lingers in rooms. I have the smell coming from my neighbour through the front door and then my bedroom just stinks although nobody has smoked in there. I find it so so inconsiderate.

I have suggested to them to use some device so the smell doesn't travel everywhere but I don't actually know if it exists.

ILikePistachios · 11/05/2024 14:00

I'm in the same situation unfortunately, neighbours are elderly and the husband smokes it for pain relief. Our whole house stinks if we leave the windows open, which this time of year we want them open 24/7. Unfortunately not found a solution

QueenMegan · 11/05/2024 13:56

Absolutely agree it should be legalised and controlled too. The first thing they should do is add something to dampen the stink

Disturbia81 · 11/05/2024 13:54

CruCru · 11/05/2024 10:56

There’s a weird attitude to weed in the UK. People act as though it has been decriminalised (probably because it has in parts of the US) but here it is class B (one rung down from cocaine and heroin). It really shouldn’t be considered a socially acceptable drug.

I would say to report them to the police but I am sure that they have the wit to not have too much of it at any one time … they’ll leave the “intention to supply” charge to the kid on a scooter who supplies them.

I think because police don't do anything about people smoking it
I don't mind people doing it in their homes, far far less harmful than alcohol. But don't want to smell it in my house and garden

0sm0nthus · 11/05/2024 13:52

CruCru · 11/05/2024 13:47

One of the major causes of knife crime in London is the supply of drugs. This is a oldish article but it talks about the problem in my area of north London.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/09/county-lines-drug-gangs-fuel-knife-crime-london-norfolk

This is why we need full legalization for cannabis, ie make it legal for recreational as well as medicinal use, take it out of the control of criminals✅

Twynklebell · 11/05/2024 13:47

Sorry to hear you're having this issue - I hate the smell of cigarettes but I find weed even worse and would be fuming if its impinging on my space all summer. I've always hated the smell even before I knew what it was. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if some people like it - its bloody unsocial to impose it on your neighbours throughout the summer. Even things like BBQ's or bonfires tend to be an occasional thing.

Try speaking to them first but if they ignore you, I'd be inclined to get your sprinklers going and make sure next door gets nicely wet. If they complain, say its dampning down the smell.

AGodawfulsmallaffair · 11/05/2024 13:36

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 11/05/2024 11:11

I’m not kidding.

Tobacco smells a lot worse. It makes me gag. Especially when people have the stale smell on their clothes.

Weed is far mellower.

I disagree, weed stinks, it’s sour and horrible. I prefer cigarette smoke.

CruCru · 11/05/2024 13:33

TwelveAngryWhiskers · 11/05/2024 12:54

YABU.

Lots of things are offensive and antisocial. Cigarettes. Music on speakers. Leaf blowers. BBQs. Bonfires. Nauseating food smells. There was a thread about perfume recently.

I vape it for pain relief. Mumsnet is very odd about weed. It reminds me of how people went mad policing the activities of others during lockdown. That because it hasn’t entirely been legalised yet, you’re BREAKING THE RULES and are demonised and shamed accordingly.

I am sorry that you need pain relief.

Cannabis hasn’t been legalised. It has been moved up the drug classifications from class C to class B. I do see that there are people on here who don’t like the law but it is the law in the UK. Should the police arrest someone for possession / possession with intent to supply, that the person arrested doesn’t like the law won’t be a good defence.

The people I feel sorry for are the kids on scooters who are supplying this stuff. They are not paid anything like enough to justify the risk of a possession with intent conviction.

QueenMegan · 11/05/2024 13:31

Failing that gey a load of raw manure for your garden🤮

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