WWYD - neighbours smoking weed

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I'm sure I've seen a similar thread but can't remember the consensus.

I live in a semi-detached house in a naice, family area. My next door neighbours (attaches) are a family with two teenage sons.

I've noticed a strong smell of weed a few times in the last few months, in the garden eg if we are out there or have our kitchen doors open. We've just got home having left the windows of the living room, front and back bedrooms on the latch (so not even wide open) and as soon as we parked up in the drive I could smell the stench of weed, and the hallway/living room/front and back bedrooms all stink of it. Including my 3 year old son's bedroom. And our bedroom where soon our newborn will be sleeping as I'm 40 weeks pregnant.

I've closed all the windows now. The smell will go, obviously.

Should I say anything? I think it's actually the mum of the family (and probably one of the teenage sons too) as when DH went over there once to discuss diy work we had going on, when she answered the door the whole house stank of it. It seems to have today come out of the parents' bedroom window as we noticed that was wide open. She's a heavy smoker otherwise, but weirdly I very rarely notice the smell of cigarette smoke; I guess it's not as pungent.

I don't care what they do in their house, they seem nice enough people and were very accommodating when we had some noisy building work going on. But I don't want my own house to stink of it, nor have to have my windows right shut at all times.

I can completely sympathise as we had the exact same issue for years. It totally ruined the summer months for us, as I didn't want my chidlren in the garden breathing it in, and couldn't leave the doors/windows open as it would then make our whole house stink. (One side were heavy cigarette smokers, other side, weed.) So we had a beautiful big garden that wasn't getting used, on the odd occasion they were out, we'd get to enjoy it for an hour before they'd return and immediately the chain smoking would start up and we'd have to shut ourselves in. Was annoying, as they were really nice and I just couldn't bring myself to speak to them about it and cause a rift. We did ring the non emergency police line, but they said as it was on private property there was nothing they could do (found this odd as in my eyes it was still illegal - the weed)
Our final solution.... we moved house! Our move, solicitors fees, estate agent fees etc came to around 20k but it was the best money we've ever spent. We've moved to a nicer area, all working families with young children, and although our garden is smaller, we can actually use it now. Sorry OP but think there is very little you can do, unless your local police seem to deal with "recreational" drug use better that ours did. You could try talking to them, but they wont likely see an issue with their lifestyle so will probably be on deaf ears and might cause tension. Is moving an option? Obviously it is a huge risk too as you can't guarantee what your new neighbours will be like, but you can usually gauge an area from the online stats, and by having a good look (sniff 😂) around.

just read that your partner protect managed your house build so you probably don't want to move. They sound reasonable so maybe just try talking to them and saying that you don't want to be rude but your house smells and it's giving you headaches, could they just move further down the garden (or if they love the smell so much shut themselves on't heir house to do it 😂). I don't know, I think some people are more sensitive to the smell than others as I can't stand it and notice it before other people do. Just wish neighbours would be more considerate. If my dogs barks in the garden I will very quickly get them in as I'm aware that the noise could be very irritating to other people and could be classed as noise pollution if a dog were allowed to just bark over and over. But someone smoking is okay though, even though that is actually going to physically affect the health of others?! I just thinks its selfish, and when it's impacting the lives of another family it should be dealt with.

barkinatthemoon we definitely won't be moving! We've been here less than 2 years, the area is fantastic as is our house (now that we've done loads of work to it!). This is a very naice area so the fact that it can happen here means it can happen anywhere.

We will definitely just mention it to them. It's unlikely they've realised the smell drifted into our house.

Although I can't speak for your neighbours personally she does sound approachable.

No use to you yet but there are some good, low odour sativa strains being developed in Holland that look promising.
I was lucky enough to try some in January (a whole month of warm smoking) and it was almost there with hardly any smell.
I'm back in the shed now with the stinky shit.

Naice . .FFS

WhentheRabbitsWentWild obviously I don't use the phrase "naice" in real life; but I was under the impression it was a recognised term on Mumsnet...