Wtaf, there was someone walking around Sainsbury’s smoking a joint!

@FreeWifi thank you.
Just thought @Blades2 trying to justify, people smoking cannabis in supermarkets! comments, well just laughable.

I mean, It’s a really simple google.

and for the record, I didn’t say it was prescribed by NHS, I possibly should have been clearer.

Its available on private prescription 🙂

On mumsnet I think you'll find its naice, actually.

It's not new behaviour though.
I worked in a newsagents in the 1990s.
One customer regularly insisted it was his "right" to smoke his cigarettes inside the shop because we sold them there.
He would stand over the newspapers flicking his ash all over them.
Tosser.

I saw someone light a cigarette in Marks and Spencer’s. Why would staff member on minimum wage challenge someone who had the potential to be violent? I mean look at how brazen they are to do that in the first place!

This country has gone to the dogs.

I have been an NHS consultant psychiatrist for 30y. Never recommended weed or vapes to patients. Maybe I need to update my CPD and check the Trust formulary again.

I don’t drink, smoke or take drugs. Living in London, I am used to the smell of weed and smell it when I am walking into the Sainsbury’s near my work at 7:30 am. I don’t love it but I’m very used to it. I don’t think it necessarily correlates with threatening behaviour though.

So he's 'a fairly middle class looking male' who also 'looked sinister' and 'he looked a bit dangerous'. Riiiiight.

Cool story

He trailed smoke in, no he was smoking a joint inside a supermarket.And no it’s legal to smoke joints in supermarkets.How reassuring of you, feel so much better now, people have nothing to worry about, according to you.
People can vape, smoke, just not in supermarkets, any shops, or enclosed public buildings, why is that so difficult for some to understand.By the sounds of it, you vape/smoke, maybe show some consideration, why should others have to breath it in.Heard it all now, psychiatrist’s recommend it…according to you.

there was a guy smoking a joint on the orange overground line in south London this evening. The smell was absolutely sickening but everyone was just pulling faces/glaring and not confronting him…..the most passive aggressive British tube disapproval ever

yes completely agree.

Thing is even if staff challenge them, because of the general lack of respect and the way our society treats and views service staff, they'll at best be totally ignored.
There's a reason that many customer facing roles wear body cams and places have signs everywhere saying abuse won't be tolerated (I mean why do we need signs reminding people to not abuse others in the first place?!).

Everyone wants the customer to always be right, when it's them, and will challenge any attempts made to get people to behave reasonably in shared space by the staff if they're affecting someone else, but if someone is affecting them then they fully expect by some miracle that the staff will be respected enough to be heeded and the behaviour to stop, and the staff are at fault if that doesn't happen.

It's the society and culture we've cultivated.

LMFAO
Im sorry but “looked sinister” “could have had a weapon”
So he trailed his smoke in, which by the way, is now prescribed privately through doctors and is legal (obviously not in joint form before anyone starts, but vape form is encouraged by the psychiatrist teams)

You’ve got little to be worrying about

Ugh, each to their own re weed, but not in a shop! Ffs. The smell alone would have annoyed me. I went to a park last week with DD, age 7, and her cousin, age 9. We had to leave, as the smell of weed was so strong. The girls couldn’t bear it (although luckily they didn’t know what it was!). I couldn’t see the person smoking it, but they were near enough to stink the whole park out. People need to be more considerate where they are smoking. A supermarket really takes the piss though!

@Justchilling07 that's kind of my point - no one does anything about smoking spliffs in public so it's just become normalised.
Not just smoking weed in public but other anti-social things. For example those electric scooters. Unless they are an official rental scheme (like Lime) then they are illegal to use in public.
But how many do you see in use on the average day? Gazillions of the blimmin things. But nothing is done about it except once in a rare blue moon when the police do a crack down.
And even then they just take the scooters off the owner. No other punishment.
They even sell the scooters in places like Currys. Why? They can't be used unless it's on private land. No one in my part of South London is going to have private land that's big enough to need a ruddy electric scooter but my local Currys has plenty for sale.
Illegal - but happens so much and nothing is done about it so people barely even notice it now.
(I could also get into a rant about drivers/cyclists who break traffic laws everyday by not stopping at zebra crossings 😂)

I saw a video on tiktok ona review of a soft play. I spotted s sign on the baby area saying "no vapes allowed in here"...curious what incident happened to make them print and laminate that sign?!

@Needmorelego yes, l would’ve told a member of staff also.So many ignore what’s going on around them and that’s why situations like this keep on happening.

I'm not making excuses for him.
I think it's a disgusting thing to do (along with regular cigarettes, vapes and excessive alcohol consumption).
I would have just told a member of. staff.

Wasn’t he mentally ill though?

Was he mentally ill?

I know right.Some of the comments are beyond!
Apparently people should be grateful, this person wasn’t doing lines of coke😂I thought l was pretty open minded, according to some on here, people who disagree with this, are being a pearl clutcher!

It’s illegal to smoke cannabis and he was smoking it in a supermarket! Don’t get why you’re making excuses for him.

@goldfishbowl2025 some smokers forget they have a fag hanging out their mouth.
My Grampy was like that.
Permanently had one in his mouth !
At his work place once they made him a birthday cake - instead of candles they stuck cigarettes in.
Unless someone reminded him to put his ciggie out he often forget it was there.
Not saying this was good obviously.