To ask how common is cannabis smoking?

As others have said, depends on your social circle. It was hugely common at my school, fairly common at uni and I had a couple of boyfriends who smoked it in the past so all of their friends did too.

Nowadays I don’t hang around with people who smoke it. Smell it every so often when I’m out and about but that’s it. I never understood the appeal.

@EarlofShrewsbury I'm just glad it's available to you. My mum lives in the UK and has RA some days she can't even get out of bed. She comes to stay with me every summer for a couple of months. I buy her edibles, teas and a balm. She's like a different woman after the 1st week.

It's everywhere, and it is fucking antisocial and stinks. All the builders round here are smoking it continuously. They are up ladders smoking it. Then they get in their vans and drive home. Regularly drive behind vans and cars where the occupant is smoking weed. We also have weed corner, where a load of people have commandeered a piece of land, and they are smoking so much, you have to turn the Aircon off as you go past.

Our neighbour has definitely addled his brain. He's completely incomprehensible, paranoid, and his wife left him.

Weed may not make people aggressive but it can make people very paranoid that can lead to aggressive. The sheer high numbers of young people with serious mh issues connected to their weed smoking is tragic#

The ignorance of the cannabis isn't that bad brigade is astounding considering that often know so much about cannabis 🙄

I actually don’t smoke it; I use an oil that’s medically prescribed. The flavor still isn’t great; apparently, they have a mint flavor but that’s been “sold out” for like a year. I take it when my pain is absolutely out of control and only then. But my partner does smoke it (also medically prescribed), and I find the whole smoking process disgusting - the smell, the way it lingers. Worse yet, if you’ve ever seen the way some kind of disgusting gunk builds up in anything used to smoke marijuana (pipe, water pipe), then it’s not a far leap to imagine all that going into someone’s lungs. I actually said to my DH that someone outside the house must have hit a skunk (lived in America for a while and you never forget the smell of a skunk that’s sprayed) and he had to remind me, we don’t HAVE skunks in the UK, so anytime you smell that, it’s always weed. I think people who subject their nearby neighbors to that smell, when there are lots of ways to take cannabis, are very unsocial.

For those of us that are prescribed, smoking it would invalidate our prescription. We have to use a vapouriser/ heated nebuliser.

Judging by the stink everywhere these days, too many people.

It’s incredibly common where we live (east London). We don’t smoke and never have but people do. Everywhere all the time. It’s quite unusual to go out and not smell it somewhere

I'm not sure how much of what I pay is tax, what I do know is I'm paying less than I was off dodgy bloke down the road and I know I'm not going to end up being ripped off.

Depends what age group

16-25 a high number of regular users most of ds friends do regularly (17)

30+ less so

40+ a few the regulars are usually utter cannabis bores

I think a neglected effect is that surely going to screw your lungs up though if you smoke a lot of it. IME a lot of people cut it with tobacco and are heavy smokers of tobacco in addition to being cannabis users.

Aside from the potential psychosis effects, if you smoke it it's probably at least as bad for you as tobacco use which no one would recommend for the health conscious.

I think it's common I smoke it daily so do most people I know 😊 we'll have a smoke instead of a drink 💕

I get mine from a government store and pay 12% tax on it.

I think a lot of people just hear or think 'illegal ' and then make assumptions. If the thread title read alcohol instead of cannabis, think of all the horror stories you could tell. A young lad fell into the canal near me and died over the weekend as a result of excessive drinking for example.
Weed doesn't make you aggressive, or leave you wandering around at 4am, youre normally safe and warm in your house.
I understand the smell isn't great, I do sympathise with that but I really think its just not understood enough, by the same people who would be happy with people drinking to excess regularly.

I get it legally, from a pharmacy, delivered by royal mail.... for my health.

I read once that about 2 million people smoke it on a regular basis so pretty common. I would be surprised if in reality that it is that low.

I don't see that smoking it at the weekends or maybe some nights would cause any more problems in your life than alcohol use.

There are some jobs though where you can be subject to random drug testing, so if you were in one of those it probably would not work out well.

Like alcohol though if you start using it a lot it's probably going to screw you up.

Very common. Got a waft of it as I left Lidl today. Often smell it walking down the street. Smell loads of it when I travel around our local council estate.
But as pp have said it's more common to do it openly in more deprived areas.

I’m not sure it’s all that common. None of my friends do this (although did when they were like 18).

one of my friends partner’s smokes it non stop.

The only people I know of that smoke weed in their 30’s are all ‘wasters’ and v depressed. A fair few of them have committed suicide.

No one in my social circle smokes weed, but I suspect it is very common in the UK.
I'm in favour of legalisation.

Far too common.

People who don't care or know about the supply chain, never mind the impacts on their own health.

I don’t think anyone in my friendship group smokes it, but the town I live in you get a waft of it regularly, either by walking past a house or someone in a supermarket stinks of it 😷

Depends on your social circle.

In some circles its more or less ubiquitous, in others it's taboo.

When I was in my 20s and 30s almost everyone I knew smoked it at least occasionally. I'm in my early 50s now and almost no one I know does, mainly because people are busy, have stressful jobs and kids and think about their health. I haven't touched it for over 25 years. But if you live in London it's very apparent that a lot of people use it.

I used it without any harm for years (other than the fact I was smoking it and the possible opportunity cost of flaking out of things because I was stoned). I wouldn't be thrilled if my DD took it up but I'm also grown-up enough to know that lots of people do it without any harm coming to them.

Depends where you live. North America very common. From teens to adult professionals and everyone in between. I've always got a few pre rolls and some gummies at home. If a friend comes over we will often sit outside and share a doobie over coffee.

When l lived in London, very common, lots of friends smoked, smelt it everywhere, lots of my friends in London still smoke. Hold down good jobs, have homes.
Now l love in middle of nowhere l only l know one couple who smoke regularly, dont really smell it anywhere.

Very common. Some people can handle it like others would a drink and live a totally normal life. Others can't, get super lazy, psychologically addicted and don't like leaving the house. I'm that second one. It's a real shame.