Why is everyone smoking weed now?

[Thetepidstepper]

I mean it's everywhere. My neighbour smokes it and stinks the block out with it. In addition I smell it very often just round and about, coming from people's gardens and in pubs and that.

I don't like it because I had a massive anxiety attack first and only time I smoked weed and it left me with PTSD, I mean it was severe. According to my therapist this is actually quite common. I mean therapists know that weed is nasty stuff that makes people feel bad, quite a lot of the time.

But still people are smoking it. And cops are turning a blind eye obviously.

I wish it was legalised really so that these stinky people would have to fit fans and vents and the like.

But until that happens loads of people are at it even though it makes them be boring cunts. Why!

I’m assuming my octogenarian neighbours are not weed smokers, but it’s common to smell it in the street these days. It’s very common to smell it all over the local green space, quite common to see dealing going on if you’re observant. And in the supermarket recently there was a guy with a backpack who was stinking half an aisle out at a time. It’s clearly acceptable these days, even though still illegal.

@Thetepidstepper
I'm sorry that some people are being so dismissive about your experience.

My dd is currently on anti anxiety meds and going through very difficult but successful therapy after trying weed just for one evening.
It has destroyed a year of her life, prior to smoking it she was loving life, she was confident, sociable and having a great time at uni (despite covid!)
Within weeks she had moved back home and for months could hardly leave the house, lost over a stone in weight and was barely functioning.

It sadly does happen and my dd has had a hellish year. Luckily she has myself and dh to turn to and lots of supportive friends. We are paying for her therapy, as the nhs waiting lists in our area are incredibly long.
I dread to think how it must be for other people, with no support network

I work in London and I agree it’s a constant smell, not just around but on people too, you can smell them from afar.I imagine their whole house and even their children smell of it.
For me though it’s the bigger problem of gang culture fighting over control of streets/neighbourhoods who they supply.Young kids being turned into drug runners on push bikes and now scooters all over the place.Then as another op said it’s stronger now and causing more mental health paranoia .
I think most “ middle class” users just don’t care or worry about how they get their cannabis or cocaine , but then moan about knife crime etc.
It’s the repercussions of it all.
It either needs to be legalised and taxed and purchased from places just like alcohol and cigarettes or totally stamped out as illegal but then London alone will need another 10/20000 officers to enforce.That’s where it falls down, the governent wring their hands over knife crime but are they actually investing in our communities and services and police to solve it? So they’re complicit in all of it.

I don't smoke or drink for health reasons but some of the comments on here are absolutely hysterical. You should do some research, alcohol is legalised for sale in the UK however the health related problems you can get from consuming it are detrimental to your health.
Domestic violence sky rockets when alcohol is involved, so do sex related crimes and crimes against children. Yet they still advertise alcohol on the TV before the watershed time ?
The only reason they haven't legalised weed is because they don't know how they would tax it. The government makes so much money from beer tax etc that if alcohol was banned the country's money pot would rapidly disappear.

I would urge some of you to realise that it's the 21st century and that the government policies are outdated. God, imagine if you actually had to do some reading and make up your own mind for a change.

The smell is so strong and it is everywhere. I run a few evenings a week. I smell it in the park , coming from gardens people smoke it walking past. I find it really sickly sweet, hate the smell. The smell is anti social.
I too think all drugs should be legalised and regulated ( and taxed!)

You seem to be assuming that people who smoke weed don't do anything else. Do you assume that people who have a glass or two of wine don't do anything either. Is that the real point of this thread, to tar all cannabis smokers with the same brush, lazy dole scum?
Give me weed over alcohol any day of the week, I've seen drunks get angry/abusive/violent never seen that happen after a joint. Maybe that's why the law isn't really interested anymore, because stoners do less harm than drunks.

I smoked weed occasionally as a teen until I had a terrifying out of body experience and never touched it again.

It is a homegrown old hippy thing here (Welsh borders) in a minor way but it's ubiquitous in the more deprived areas where entire streets reek of it.

At university I saw bright funny people become dull due to chronic weed use, stoners are boring to be around. If they weren't smoking it they were talking about getting it.

A relative of mine is very dependent on it. If he hasn’t got any weed he’s a nightmare to live with.

Never gets stoned from it, spends £40 a week plus on it.

His whole family are the same, none of them work and haven’t got a penny to their name.

No milk several days before getting paid with no money to get any as they have spent every penny they have on weed.

@Thetepidstepper

I don't think people have off the scale reactions to alcohol that make them think that they're really dead and they've invented everyone around them and nobody else knows the truth and they need telling urgently.

I've spoken to the stinky neighbour loads; sometimes he denies it, other times he says he'll put his kitchen vent on. We're all in a housing association so I don't want to be a cunt and make some guy precarious housing wise and honestly it's obvious his life is a bit shit with the way he never goes anywhere and just gets stoned all the time so again I don't want to make it worse, but it's just not very nice.

If that was your reaction then I don’t think you were smoking weed!

Wow. Judgemental much.

So weed didn't agree with you, same for loads of people, not a fan of it myself as it sends me under too but to call people boring cunts because they smoke it is unnecessary. Do you feel the same about people who drink ?

@SecondCityShark

But yeah, my area is full of hippy types so it's very common. I think it's becoming more socially acceptable than booze.

It's sort of class based actually. The middle class hippies smoke weed, the working class locals drink alcohol.

Round here the only area where you can smell weed in the street, day and night, is very much the rougher part of town.

We've also had some raids here on cannabis 'farms' set up in unused buildings. Unless you're growing your own or buying direct from a friend who grows then there are serious modern slavery issues. Here is was Vietnamese teenagers locked in these buildings as 'gardeners'. Heartbreaking.

@Thetepidstepper

I've never heard of anyone having an anxiety attack on first smoke. It must have a been strong joint, best to start off gently. At my first time I was sick, which is apparently the sign of an amateur, and didn't try it again for years.

Well that's all very nice and tidy.

My experience fucked my life up for years, literally 10 years on antipsychotics and in and out of hospital, which isn't fun, but you fucking crack on and tell me I've got it wrong if you want to make some petty fucking point about how much fun you are.

10 years of PTSD and 10 years on antipsychotics because you smoked a joint…good job you’re not a soldier now retuning from Afghanistan I’m sure they know the true meaning of PTSD. Yes I’m sure I will get flamed for my comment but 🤷‍♀️

If people are smoking it everywhere there must be something wrong with me! I wouldn't have any idea what it smells like! I was talking to someone once, and I said "But how do you find out where to buy weed or cocaine?" and he said "Well people offer it to you in the pub"..... Nope! the only time I ever knowingly saw a dealer was in the red light district in Amsterdam when a man wandered past muttering a list of his wares.

@vegas888
Wow!
I can't believe there are people like you still but then boom - just like that you appear.
You do know it's 2021 dear?

Yes it's everywhere. You smell it stopped at the traffic lights coming from other cars etc. I was at a funeral wake the other day and half the people there were smoking it.

@wheresmyshoe exactly my point, there is a modern day slavery factor in it from “the gardeners” whom have had their passports taken away, to the county lines boys and girls being groomed at 14-15 years old to run it up and down the country.Then if you are lucky enough to own a second property or live next door to one of these you find a cannabis farm being grown syphoning the electricity causing health hazards.And for the owner of these farms they are also into bigger crime too.
It’s a greater, deeper , darker issue than many people realise who just buy a bit “from someone in the pub”

[quote DobbleDobble]@wheresmyshoe exactly my point, there is a modern day slavery factor in it from “the gardeners” whom have had their passports taken away, to the county lines boys and girls being groomed at 14-15 years old to run it up and down the country.Then if you are lucky enough to own a second property or live next door to one of these you find a cannabis farm being grown syphoning the electricity causing health hazards.And for the owner of these farms they are also into bigger crime too.
It’s a greater, deeper , darker issue than many people realise who just buy a bit “from someone in the pub”[/quote]
All very true, my friends neighbouring property turned out to be a cannabis farm, very 'nice' area and nobody had a clue until the police raided it.
The house was 'ran' by modern day slaves and set up, as they often are, in a very risky way in terms of fire risk etc

You got PTSD from having a joint?! What?! Sounds unbelievable to me!

@HateJudgmentalPeople

You got PTSD from having a joint?! What?! Sounds unbelievable to me!

Is your username a joke 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

@QueefofSheena

YANBU, it seems to be stinkier than ever too. People who smoke it don’t seem to realise they reek of that revolting ‘old sock stinky feet’ smell for ages after too.

Tobacco smells disgusting but I don’t think weed does, probably because I smoke it myself and I love the smell!

Haha...I don’t mean unbelievable as in I don’t believe it, I mean it seems unbelievable that you would have it from something like this, I wouldn’t say being stoned is traumatic at all.

Shit I added a comment without quoting you so my comment before this is to you.

@GiveMeAUserName123

It’s just stinks though doesn’t it. Like cats piss!

If it stinks like cats piss its mcat

Some of us have had the most horrific things happen to us in life, beatings, rape, miscarriages, parents who have died in tragic ways so yes, when people say they’ve suffered 10 years ptsd from smoking a joint I do question it.

@brittleheadgirl, yes dear, I do know it’s 2021.