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Constant smell of weed next door- are they growing it?

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Beenthereagainandagain · 24/09/2024 22:27

the house next door smells strongly and constantly of weed. If it was just occasional I wouldn’t really be that bothered but it’s literally all the time and smells so strong it sometimes makes me feel a bit sick when I go near. The house isn’t even that close to our boundary, a good 20-30ft with trees and shrubs. It is very tucked away from the road down an almost private drive shared with one other house. We are on another street but the ends of our gardens adjoin. I went and had a nosey the other day and there are two vans parked on their drive (like camper vans but with blacked out windows, not tradesmen’s vans iyswim) and a skip. I’m suddenly imagining a high level drugs crime syndicate with gun-toting kingpin! Am I being over-dramatic?

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TravelInsuranceQ · 25/09/2024 00:30

You could call 101 now rather than waiting.
They could well be gone by the morning - round here the grow houses only really smelled when they were drying it, that's when people noticed the grow houses in the posh road with the expensive houses in 😂

WhoOfWhoville · 25/09/2024 00:30

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They’re probably all too high to orchestrate something on this scale, they be listening to Bob Marley and praising Jah in the Moonlight, so I heard.

Screamingabdabz · 25/09/2024 00:29

I wouldn’t be surprised. We live in a semi-rural OAP backwater and have observed over the last few months a whole supply operation going with blacked out cars arriving and young men on scooters being despatched with ‘deliveroo’ bags.

We are suffering the boredom of empty nest syndrome and don’t quite know whether to dob them in, or join the party. Jury’s out.

justasking111 · 25/09/2024 00:29

Friends rented out their first floor offices when they retired a few doors down from the police station. Someone in the terrace of shops and offices complained to the police alerted by the smell. It was raided. They found a cannabis farm.

PieonaBarm · 25/09/2024 00:29

Are the curtains closed, windows blacked out and/or condensated? Cannabis is grown in a humid light controlled environment

WhoOfWhoville · 25/09/2024 00:26

Realistically they may already be getting ready to dismantle to/or have dismantled everything, if they’re drying. The equipment will get loaded into vans and driven somewhere fairly far away and fly tipped.

LuckyCrow · 25/09/2024 00:23

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Beenthereagainandagain · 25/09/2024 00:22

Don’t know if it’s rented. I’ve never seen the people. Like I say, it backs into our garden and is in another street tucked away on a semi-private drive behind other houses. Ideal place for something dodgy to go on without observation really.

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justasking111 · 25/09/2024 00:13

Is this property rented?

WhoOfWhoville · 25/09/2024 00:09

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LuckyCrow · 24/09/2024 23:17

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Beenthereagainandagain · 24/09/2024 22:57

So I suppose I’ll need to report to the police? Just call 101 tomorrow?

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HotPotato123 · 24/09/2024 22:36

When the plants are growing they don’t tend to smell as strongly, it’s when they are being cultivated/cured/dried that they smell.

WhoOfWhoville · 24/09/2024 22:35

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WhoOfWhoville · 24/09/2024 22:34

If the smell is that strong then they may be growing it, it’s incredibly stinky when it’s drying out/curing. You couldn’t have a smell that strong carry like that from a J or any other means of consumption.