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

If you can smell it through your walls there's a 99.9999% they are growing it. A few years ago we had a couple of Greek blokes( aka Albanian) move in next door. They wore white decorators dungarees and drove an estate car with a pile of dust sheets in the back.They ser.ed like the best neighbours I could possibly wish for. Quiet, polite, friendly, helpful..until...
I worked late shifts so my very sensible teenager would be alone most nights but had neighbours the other side who are like family to us.
One day DC said that they s.eeled weed but it was okay as they were such hard working fellas and it wasn't hurting anyone.
One day I came into my house and I was met with tge strongest smell of weed imaginable. Within minutes the smell disappeared completely. I spoke to a friend who recommended putting my ear to the wall vents( victoriana terraced house)I could hear the whirring of fans.
I called the police who logged it but didn't act upon it. Called a couple of weeks later and were shirty with me for asking if anything was being done.
Cue a third call a few weeks later and they sent a couple of officers round to investigate. They were so bloody rude to me,asking why id called them when there was no one in the house. Talk about thin blue line.
Eventually they gained entry,using my tools,I know you mot,and there was a full on cannabis factory in every room aswell as the loft.
Seven weeks later and a few doors down another house was busted. I recognised some packaging in the porch as matching items I'd seen being delivered to my Greek next door neighbours and mentioned this to the police. They weren't the slightest bit interested. I also mentioned seeing these menvisit the house and assumed they were friends.
About 10% of the house in my street gave been used as cannabis factories, I kid you not. Im used to smelling it a lot ,but more so on people rather than premises. Mostly grown in industrial estates now or derelict shops etc.
Ask your neighbours to check air vents,loft etc. Id put money on it being a grow house. A single plant is worth between £1k and £1.4K .
They need reporting as they are a massive fire hazard .

Yep, me too!

Yes, this is why I mentioned medical-grade vaping devices. There should be no smell from them EXCEPT what someone breathes out, which shouldn’t be strong enough to go through walls. They don’t constantly make a smell, like either regular vapes or (god forbid) smoking a bong or just smoking regular rolled-up whatever. But as a result, they cost anywhere from £250 to £600. But if you actually need it and don’t want to make your neighbours’ lives more unpleasant, then it’s worth the cost.

If anyone ever tells you they need it for a medical reason, but they’re just plain smoking it or using a bong, they’re absolutely full of shite. If you burn it any hotter than 200C, you’re just destroying any healthy or helpful terpenes it contains - all but one terpene are activated at or below 200. They warn you about this when you use it medically; that if you’re just lighting it on fire, you’re essentially ruining it.

Legalisation would probably also help with the smell, long-term. Different strains have different smells. There are a few houses near us that either grow or smoke it excessively; sometimes the smell is quite pleasant, sometimes it is beyond rank.

I imagine the demand for low-smelling strains would have professional farmers racing to develop new strains to meet the demand.

Legalisation would be the best way to reduce or eliminate potentially dangerous illegal cannabis growing operations.

Bet Archie York’s mum wishes she had “grassed up” her neighbour - she might have been a “snitch” but she’d still have her son FFS!

I wish I had weed-growing neighbours. Our cavity wall insulation has gone, and the HA won't fix it/deny it is an issue. Our power bills are close to £600 a month in winter, and it's still fucking freezing.

How does one go about encouraging their adjoining neighbours to set up a weed farm?

If they are growing IME the adjoining neighbours would feel their place get a lot hotter than normal. That's what happened when we had a grow in the maisonette and their attic above us.

In my experience the smell of cannabis being vaped is just as strong as the smell of it being smoked @FFSToEverythingSince2020
I hope you're right about legalization 😁

I was really hoping this thread would be about a small stinky black and white animal.

Report it to both the police and the council. Each side will say it's not their problem initially but eventually when enough complaints come in they'll do something about it.

It is awful but there are no effective protections against low level anti social behaviour in your own home. All you can do is move, do recon into the area you are moving too and hope that your neighbours do not move.

Life is stressy enough without having to come home and feel uncomfortable in the place that's supposed to be your sanctuary no matter how big or small your home is.

In terraced houses, the loft space and crawl space under the floor are not properly separated. That's why it is so strong smelling when they're smoking it next door. They're probably not growing it if you don't smell it all the time.

My kids are partial to the occasional joint, not often, maybe a few times a year, but when we have the large air purifier running on the stairs, I can't even smell it from downstairs. I'm not sure how well it would work if it was situated further away from the source, but you could try it? We have ours for allergies, but it does wonders when we have smoking guests. Ours is by AirTok.

With a smell that strong they're doing more than smoking it, report to the police. Report to their landlord or letting agent if you know who they are. Do whatever you can as long as they are there producing that smell you'll really struggle to sell up yourself to get away from it too.

People do not grass up neighbours except for violence for goodness sakes.

'Grass up'? Do you live in Albert Square?

And as pp have said, growing often goes along with dodgy electrics, which are a fire hazard.

If the smell is really that bad, a word in their ear might be enough to send them out to the garden to smoke.

So they stink out people's gardens instead.

Oh ffs. “Grass up.” You’re on MN; no one here is a geezer from the East End. We don’t follow the criminal code… often 😂

You should report your neighbours whenever their anti-social behavior moves into law-breaking and stops you from enjoying YOUR property. “Live and let live” only works if they’re not encroaching on your ability to enjoy living.

The smell of weed is everywhere. It's awful. By us, there are certain houses that stink as you walk past. Sometimes they'll stop smelling (people have moved or been raided I guess) but then it'll just start somewhere else.

Do report it.

People do not grass up neighbours except for violence for goodness sakes.
Live and let live.

If the smell is really that bad, a word in their ear might be enough to send them out to the garden to smoke.

Please don’t think this. I mean, I don’t blame you because so many people who use it are so antisocial and don’t consider their neighbours, but if you use it medically (I do), it comes as an oil or you’re supposed to use a medical-grade vaporizer. No one should be smelling it except the person using it. But like everything in life, the people who break the rules are most visible, and of course, people hate the action as a result. I wouldn’t want my house to smell like it!

Unfortunately, legalization IS coming - it’s a multi-billion pound business, and the government has “soft launched” by making it medically available to almost everyone who wants it (medical conditions that qualify include everything from IBS to anxiety and something like 250 conditions in between, it’s less expensive than buying illegally, and you know the exact provenance of your medication, so no more county lines for marijuana at least). But before legalization, I think we need much, MUCH stronger prosecution for anti-social behavior, and that needs to include smells. So, now is the ideal time to lobby for that.

Also when in “flower” the smell gets stronger too.

Not the point of the post but if they are growing the smell wouldn’t necessarily be there constantly as lights and fans are on timers and if set incorrectly would make the smell more intense at certain points of the day!