So pissed off. Great neighbours moving because of weed smell *

Oh dear, I hate that sort of shit. Knuckle dragging morons. The weed smell is bad enough. What must the nice neighbour think of us all?

There is 1 flag up in the next street and it makes me feel ashamed to see it there.

I hope you and nice neighbour find your new homes are lovely places. Rooting for you!

Apparently it’s not there all the time if they’re growing - only when they change the filters or whatever on the extraction system.

we think we have a grow house near us, when we can work out which house it is, we’ll call it in.

@LBF I assumed the weed smoking racists were white as they told OP to go back to where she came from. I'm aware racism isn't just something white people do - in fact OP could be white English and dared to venture north to Scotland - but generally on MN, most racists are white.

The op didn't specify the race of the racists or the pot smokers, unless I missed something.

Before I moved to my current flat (I downsized two years ago), I lived in a semi detached house with garden back and front and could not smell anything from either side except barbecue in good weather. I once got a whiff of pot but that was when I was at the bottom of my garden - and it was thirty odd years ago! Nothing came through the walls, even on the adjoined side.

There were no racists that I knew amongst my neighbours, of any ethnicity. Where we had previously lived, as first time buyers, it was dreadful, quite a hostile area. The National Front regularly marched. I don't think it's so bad there now, it's more mixed and relaxed.

How things change over the years...so now we have white racist weed smokers telling people (of unknown origin) to go back to their country.

When back in my day - when we knew the grasses from the 'grass' - it would be the white racists telling the weed/grass smokers (of unknown origin) to leave.

Blimey, I would hate to live cheek by jowl with racists, they never seem to be able to keep it to themselves and pontificate expecting everyone to agree with them! That would make me depressed and want to move.

On the bright side, it’s got you viewing places in your ideal location. Just keep viewing and viewing. Even the crap places teach you something about what you will and won’t compromise on. The more bad places you look at, the more sure you will be when you do finally find the right ones

Yes I also thought a pet skunk.

Op I would just move.

I agree. Bromley person here, originally from Sydenham.

I used the term earlier and was asked if I lived in Albert Square :-). However 'grassing' is a term that has been used forever, I can remember it from my teens and I am 76! I went to a boarding school for a while and we used the word 'grass' there for people who would 'tell tales' on fellow pupils and get them into trouble.

The op has 'reported' to her local councillor but i doubt very much anything will come of it.

I do wonder if the smell is as bad as she thinks.

I have a first floor flat in a small over-60s block; it's very safe, nobody can get in without being 'buzzed\ in, all the common parts are regularly cleaned (including the 'bin' room downstairs), the garden is well maintained and we have a concierge Mon-Fri during the day,

In the evening if I leave my flat and walk along the corridor to the stairs or lift I occasionally get a whiff of weed. It doesn't bother me in the least. My son said he has noticed it here occasionally when he's visited but, "Old people use weed for aches and pains"'. Also we are the generation who lived the swinging sixties, on the whole we live and let live :-).

Hopefully there’s no real wild skunks living in the woods!🤣

Do you know if skunk neighbours have any children living there? if so report to the relevant authorities. Also trace landlord details it’s easy to do via land register send them anonymous letter.

I don’t blame them tbh. One of my neighbours is clearly smoking/gowing cannabis too but I can’t work out which ones it is-I have a row of houses close to the back and neighbours to the side. Adjacent neighbours are elderly and the next few down I can’t see it being them either but the smell is so strong mostly at night, it’s like they’re in my garden smoking it. It’s awful.

That's what I thought!🤭

Sorry. Old South East Londoner here. Grassing is generally considered bad form by most decent people.

Skunk apparently has a high concentrate of sulphur compounds which is why it is so pungent and the smell hangs around. Other cannabis smells are lighter.

My bedroom used to stink of it,the smell came through the loft opening which was in my bedroom. My neighbour was definitely growing it. Thankfully they moved out.

Ugh I can only imagine how horrible this is for you and your neighbour. I can’t stand the smell of the stuff. And it is so strong.

I spent 8 weeks in a hotel for work a couple years ago and I could set my watch by the person smoking weed. Every day that I had a room which faced the car park in it wafted. I asked to be moved rooms on several occasions because of it. I could even smell it when I was a significant way from the smoking area. I never once smelt cigarette smoke, despite being relatively close to the smoking area on one occasion. So weed goes a hell of a lot further away than cigarette smoke. And it’s just so strong. One day I actually followed the smell to where it got stronger and it was the smoking area (despite no one being there, he must have finished just before I got there). You can almost follow the smell as if it was a green haze like on a cartoon. It must be what it feels like to be a dog tracking smells.

I would also be looking to move if I could. Having said that there is no guarantee that you won’t end up with the same problem at the next house. Even if it is fine now there is nothing stopping a weed smoker moving in next door. A sea breeze may help reduce the smell though.

I'm from the US and I kept smelling skunk in and around London. I kept thinking, " I didn't know skunks made it to the UK". FINALLY, I caught up, realizing it was weed. Hubs and I had a good laugh. But why you'd want to smoke skunky weed is beyond my own reckoning.

Go have a look at Leafly website. All of the different strains are catalogued there. I haven't seen Skunk since the mid 90's, these days it's more likely to be Blue Zushi, Toad Venom or Hyper Za.
Perfumes are Nassomatto Black Afghano which smells like Black hashish, and Carolina Herrera Bad Boy le Parfum

We had a 'drugs factory ' next door to us in a rented property - they were growing it in every room room in the house. The plants don't smell anything like when it's being smoked. I went into the house after the place had been cleared out by the owner. It only smelt of vegetation.