Will the police actually do anything if I report neighbours for selling weed?

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Name changed obviously. My next door neighbours son is always smoking weed in the garden (he stays there a few nights a week) and has people coming round all throughout the day obviously to pick up drugs. We share a path so it's not like I'm looking out for them. Since lockdown the son has moved out because his mom is in a vulnerable category (seems to have some disabilities I'm not sure what) but it's become apparent that the mom is carrying on selling the weed for her son! We still have people coming and going a few times a day despite lockdown. She lives alone and I know they're not friends or family as they're always different people.

So my question is, what will the police do if I report them? Do they actually care? It's not like they'll search their house or anything will they.

Ah, I didn't know ... thanks (quietly slips out ...)

And to grow enough to sell - well the smell would t just be when it was smoked in the garden...

Huge electricity bills are the giveaway when people grow in a room in their house because of the need for heat and light and the irrigation system.

Someone with a garden centre, nursery or who lives on a fairly large estate with greenhouses would probably get away with it.

Just had a thought: being as the op has her own house she could probably have a greenhouse erected in the garden and try growing some weed. Then she could supply her disabled neighbour with enough to sell to son's friends. Everyone would make a profit so a good result all round.

Just had a thought: being as the op has her own house she could probably have a greenhouse erected in the garden and try growing some weed. Then she could supply her disabled neighbour with enough to sell to son's friends. Everyone would make a profit so a good result all round.

whilst I applaud your intention to try and keep everyone happy, sadly that would instantly make the OP a dealer and therefore subject to the Proceeds Of Crime Act which would probably seize their house for a start. And that's just a worry about the thuggery of the law enforcement side of things. Much more concerning would be when (not if, when) the local ne'er do wells hear about it, and decide to rock up waving machetes and demanding know where "the stash" is.

The golder rules of cannabis growing in the UK are:

Don't Tell. Don't Sell. Don't Smell.

Along with the maxim "only break one law at a time" - so paying for electricity. Which, incidentally, no one gives a toss how much you are using, as long as you pay for it. The police have already had the time-saving idea of trying to bust people with large electricity bills. Turns out they were unaware that people do all sorts of interesting legal things with electricity - kilns and tropical fish being quite power hungry.

TheUser, you have brought me down to earth and I am thankful. I had a cottage industry already organised in my head for when this pandemic is over but now I think I'll just go back to being retired. Not a bad idea though, eh?

I'd tell the police that you suspect that there is drug dealing at a specific address, and that there is a vulnerable person living there who is being coerced into selling drugs by someone else. You can report anonymously.

Or if you don't want to do it yourself, then mention it to your local neighbourhood watch team.

I'd tell the police that you suspect that there is drug dealing at a specific address, and that there is a vulnerable person living there who is being coerced into selling drugs by someone else. You can report anonymously.

Lot of supposition there ... maybe it could all be put into a dossier, and an apocalyptic figure of 45 minutes thrown in for good measure ?

this may well be a case of cuckooing (all of you saddo smokers who think drug taking is victimless, look it up) but that is really difficult for the police to deal with. And the dealers know it. The only remedy is for the landlord to evict. This takes months in normal times and will take up to a year now - but you might as well get started by telling the council who I believe you said were the landlord. Eventually she will get moved on and it will begin again elsewhere.

the violence and disturbance will only ramp up. This would be great if the scum just knifed each other but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

How is the fact it's rented not owned not relevant? Surely they could be evicted.

OP has no proof whatsoever, she’s made this assumption because the son smokes.
Would you be pleased sending the police to a disabled vulnerable persons door and reporting them to their landlord??
You have no idea these ppl are coming to her house, get away from your window and get a hobby.

Lots of supposition there No there isn't.

Drug dealing: Check.
Vulnerable mother living there: Check.
Possibly disabled woman with dodgy son who she may be being intimidated by: Check.
Randoms going to the house at various times who don't live there: Check.

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There’s no proof of anything just OPs twitchy nose 🙄

frontoback: Or if you don't want to do it yourself, then mention it to your local neighbourhood watch team.
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Then the whole neighbourhood know about it and will start making their own assumptions! The op has no proof of drug peddling going on next door.

Why do you care?

Absolutely. If you have ever read any of the news reports about the vulnerable young people cruelly enslaved in cannabis farms (that also steal electricity from the grid) then you wouldn’t be so quick to paint it as some kind of benign indulgence.

So let’s legalize it, produce top quality British weed, rake in loads of tax and save a fortune in policing, court and prison costs. Win win win.

I'd tell the police that you suspect that there is drug dealing at a specific address, and that there is a vulnerable person living there who is being coerced into selling drugs by someone else. You can report anonymously.

If you are going to just make up the whole narrative yourself you should lay it on a bit thicker, tell ‘em you saw knives, heard shots, those teenagers probably looked a bit like terrorists (right-wing or Islamic, depending on your area). And the old lady is definitely a modern-day slave help captive by her evil son and his henchmen.

Didn’t they just have a new patio..?

The op says the woman next door is disabled so I think she should be given the benefit of the doubt. Can any of us begin to imagine what it would be like to be accused of a crime we did not commit, when we are in a vulnerable position already?

It's patronising top assume all disabled people are helpless victims.

My next door neighbour has cerebral palsy and is a small time dealer, I don't particularly care because it causes no disruption.

The smell of him smoking weed is pretty horrible at times but I'm sure I annoy him in some ways too.

If your neighbour behaviour bothers you then report it, I've seen some stories in the paper where small time dealers are prosecuted. I don't think the council would act without a conviction since they need a lot of proof to evict someone.

Well they aren't social distancing are they - I must remember this if the police query why I am visiting a neighbour during lockdown when it's not allowed. Just buying some weed, officer, MN say it's ok to do that whenever.

Gingerkitty, I didn't mean to be patronising to the disabled; I could be disabled myself one day and would hate that. The other thing is we don't know what disabilities the neighbour has.

Speaking of cerebral palsy, cannabis is very good at minimising muscle spasms of any type which is why it is possible (with difficulty), for it to be prescribed in this country. In some states of the USA, and in Canada, it is more freely available for medical use.

However what people are objecting to on this thread is the speculation about the neighbour dealing; she may not be. It really is best not to pay too much attention to what goes on in the lives of neighbours unless they are in need of help.

EdwinaMay Sun 03-May-20 20:10:05
Well they aren't social distancing are they - I must remember this if the police query why I am visiting a neighbour during lockdown when it's not allowed. Just buying some weed, officer, MN say it's ok to do that whenever.
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Edwina, if you live next door I think they could push it over the fence or through the letter box. Deliveries and payments for all sorts are made without actually going into a house.

Edwina, if you live next door I think they could push it over the fence or through the letter box. Deliveries and payments for all sorts are made without actually going into a house.

I think drug dealers were well ahead of the curve when it came to social distancing, from my memory of The Wire

I doubt anyone would do anything about this but if they did, this woman could potentially lose her home. Are you really that bothered by it?

Just to clarify I mentioned that they are renting to see if reporting to their landlord was an option, I don't think that I'm better because I own a house.

I'm surprised so many people are saying to leave them be honestly! Whether it's weed or cocaine, drugs are illegal and I don't want my child growing up next to a drug dealer. Would you want to live next door to a dealer? I doubt it.

I'm not assuming they sell drugs, I know they do. People knock on their door and give them money and leave. I'm assuming its weed because it stinks of weed round their house, it could be any kind of drug so I wouldn't minimise what they're doing because it's 'just' a bit of weed.

Since when was lockdown an excuse to break the law? 'Everyone's bored leave them alone/people are hard up for money right now' - I'll go rob a house then shall I, as its lockdown and I'm bored and the law doesn't apply?

Also the fact that my neighbour has a disability does not mean she's above the law and should be allowed to break it without consequence.

This has been going on for the few years I've lived here and I thought the police may care now that people are breaking lockdown to come to a vulnerable persons house to get drugs and put her at risk in the process.

If it has been going on for years why is it only now that you feel you want to report it? You say people come to the door, give money and go (presumably with a package of something), do you watch her front door? I know i wouldn't see who came to my neighbours' front doors nor they mine - possibly people opposite but it's a wide road and I don't usually sit in the front anyway.

As for your child growing up next door to drug dealers, how will your child know while they are young? They may move - or die - or anything before your child is old enough to understand so don't worry in advance about what may not happen.