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Unable to open windows as people back of me smoking cannabis. Selfish *****

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Aerom · 23/05/2026 09:35

During hot weather, I open my windows before the sun hits it.

Came back from shopping and the direction of the windows I was planning to open, people in the garden on the other side of the wall are smoking cannabis. Oh great! I don’t want to have the smell of that vile stuff wafting in my home. I’m sure the varieties used now are more pungent. As my ex smoked it and the smell didn’t affect me

Live in a first floor flat

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SpaceRaccoon · 23/05/2026 14:37

AeriatedAnna · 23/05/2026 14:18

A strong sense of smell 😆 If you can’t smell that stench there’s gotta be something wrong with you.

Indeed, you hardly need the nose of a bloodhound to detect that wall of absolute BO reek.

EarthlyNightshade · 23/05/2026 14:28

beeautifullif3 · 23/05/2026 13:40

Gosh all this drama over a plant 🤣🤣

Do you feel the same about heroin? Also plant based.

Hotupnorth · 23/05/2026 14:22

Ablondiebutagoody · 23/05/2026 11:13

I quite like the smell. Reminds me of the good old days

Which good old days would those be then 🙄

AeriatedAnna · 23/05/2026 14:18

A strong sense of smell 😆 If you can’t smell that stench there’s gotta be something wrong with you.

wombat1a · 23/05/2026 14:08

It stinks, it lingers, its worse than normal cigarettes, its anti-social to inflict this on neighbours. OP needs to escalate this as far as possible. No-one should be forced to endure someone elses weed.

dottiedodah · 23/05/2026 14:02

I sympathise OP .We have a similar problem here .I doubt police would be interested anyway ,although it would never occur to me to report someone smoking weed .We dont open the windows all the time even in summer .A fan will work well

crazeekat · 23/05/2026 14:00

Clearly all u lot saying tuft put up with it all smoke it and have no sense of smell left. The stuff fucking is revolting and why the fuck should I and my kids have to suffer?? Absolute vermin who smoke this shit.

SapphireSteel28 · 23/05/2026 13:58

GingerBeverage · 23/05/2026 09:49

I find a lot of people have very low sense of smell. They can’t smell their own BO, or the reek of cigarettes, or weed.

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I have a ridiculously acute sense of smell-I am continually saying, “I can smell weed!” Or “Has someone farted?”

SpaceRaccoon · 23/05/2026 13:52

This is why I moved to the arse end of nowhere.

beeautifullif3 · 23/05/2026 13:40

Gosh all this drama over a plant 🤣🤣

Jamesblonde2 · 23/05/2026 13:05

Get the hose pipe out. Whoopsy daisy!

Hattermadness · 23/05/2026 13:02

youalright · 23/05/2026 09:46

So many people on this site seem to have such a strong sense of smell. Their outside how much is the smell really going to drift.

You would be surprised, I can smell when the bloke two doors down smokes it 🤢 it's rancid

smallgreenandsplitthreeways · 23/05/2026 12:45

Thechaseison71 · 23/05/2026 12:18

Hmm I have a friend who smokes it regularly but doesn't contribute to any of the things you are going on about. .

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So your friend is happily and illegally growing their own plants, drying it and then smoking it? Because if they are not growing their own, where are they getting it from?

PinkyFlamingo · 23/05/2026 12:45

youalright · 23/05/2026 09:46

So many people on this site seem to have such a strong sense of smell. Their outside how much is the smell really going to drift.

You would be surprised how far it travels! I can recognise the disgusting smell in the air, even when I'm walking along the street etc

Goldengirl123 · 23/05/2026 12:42

Us too. If they want to smoke it they should do so inside their property. Why should we have have to put up with it?

OtterlyAstounding · 23/05/2026 12:42

TheKittenswithMittens · 23/05/2026 12:10

I think it needs legalising, controlling and taxing.

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This. The UK is very backwards in this regard. Legalising cannabis eliminates or shrinks the harmful black market, and means that on a medical and social level, it's much less harmful than alcohol.

Legalisation also provides easy, safe access to edibles, vaporisers, and other less stinky methods of consuming weed, which might mean fewer people have to smell it wafting over from the neighbours!

I don't think it smells bad, but I imagine it is irritating to have it drifting into your house when you live so close to the neighbours.

NotTheOrdinary · 23/05/2026 12:40

CieloElmers · 23/05/2026 11:24

Because people in “non scummy” areas never smoke weed 🙄

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More likely to be snorting coke.

OriginalSkang · 23/05/2026 12:38

🚨⚠️ Vile alert ⚠️ 🚨

Realvintagewrinkles · 23/05/2026 12:35

Woodywasatwatt · 23/05/2026 12:01

I sympathise.

My neighbours both sides smoke weed most of the day. And as soon as the sun comes out, the neighbours over the back start playing Bon Jovi at full volume and screaming at each other.

It was lovely outside last night, but sitting in the garden wasn’t exactly relaxing.

My area is very scummy though, so it’s all totally normal for here.

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Same here! I live in Social Housing and I’m the odd one out - you’re not normal here unless you’re taking your bong out to the car park, sitting in your car with the doors wide open for a few hours, getting stoned with your music blaring full blast, or standing by the communal windows on the landing thinking that because you’re near a window the smoke is all going outside, and then the best bit is, they all get in their cars and drive, sometimes with the kids in there too!

I defy anyone to say that weed is harmless, when you’ve lived in SH for as long as I have and have seen the absolute damage this drug can do, you’d have a very different opinion.

Blueper · 23/05/2026 12:32

I wish the government would be clearer on this. If it's illegal, they need to be arresting all these stinky people! Or, they need to legalise it. At the moment everywhere stinks of weed (yes it is MUCH stronger smelling than I remember from my mispent youth 🤣) but it just sits in this grey area for reporting and has become normalised.

Lomonald · 23/05/2026 12:29

Badbadbunny · 23/05/2026 12:08

Weed smokers will almost certainly not be bothered about their anti social behaviour, after all, they're contributing to money laundering and organised crime and all the other misery within the drugs supply chain including modern slavery etc. If they don't care about the human misery they're causing by buying the stuff, they won't be bothered by a bit of smell annoying the neighbours.

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Yeah you are right,

gwrbakes · 23/05/2026 12:25

Thechaseison71 · 23/05/2026 12:18

Hmm I have a friend who smokes it regularly but doesn't contribute to any of the things you are going on about. .

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I mean he must be the absolute exception then.

Throwntothewolves · 23/05/2026 12:25

CieloElmers · 23/05/2026 12:19

So where do they smoke it then? In their smoking rooms with their smoking jackets on?

I haven’t agreed the smell is pleasant or that I don’t feel sorry for OP, it’s just ridiculous to think only people in “scummy areas” smoke weed.

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In their houses, and their friends houses, if they do it at all.
I agree that weed, or drug use in general, isn't confined to 'scummy' areas (what defines a 'scummy' area anyway?)
As far as I can tell weed isn't the main drug of choice in 'nice' areas, maybe in part because the smell gives their habit away, and that wouldn't go with the image

Yetone · 23/05/2026 12:23

Thechaseison71 · 23/05/2026 12:18

Hmm I have a friend who smokes it regularly but doesn't contribute to any of the things you are going on about. .

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What so everywhere can stink!

CieloElmers · 23/05/2026 12:19

Throwntothewolves · 23/05/2026 12:14

Generally not in their back garden because it's not socially accceptable (and illegal) despite what the disingenuous replies on this thread seem to suggest.
YANBU OP, some of the responses on this thread are ridiculous

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So where do they smoke it then? In their smoking rooms with their smoking jackets on?

I haven’t agreed the smell is pleasant or that I don’t feel sorry for OP, it’s just ridiculous to think only people in “scummy areas” smoke weed.

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