Upstairs neighbour smoking up, flat now stinks of weed - including baby’s toom

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RIGHT.

My upstairs neighbour smokes up quite a lot. The shared corridor often has a whiff of marijuana, as does he. Today however, he’s absolutely gone to town and the corridor STINKS. My front rooms also stink - these being my bedroom and the nursery, with my nine month old baby in it.

How do I keep the smell out? And what do I do?

I knocked and asked them to smoke further away from the door. He just sort of sniggered and said he didn’t know what he was talking about. I said I didn’t have a problem with it, I just didn’t want my whole flat to smell of weed.

It’s only his flat and my flat in the building so it would be entirely obvious who had called the police or made a complaint.

oh - he’s also the freeholder of the whole building.

I think all you can do is tell him it’s not right to do this near a baby’s bedroom, and if he still sniggers, move.

There are specific things designed to get rid of the smell, candles, some of those gel freshners or maybe neutralising air freshners would all work.

A friend of mine has a thing that he exhales into and it filters out the smell, I think it's called a sploof? (It's pretty similarly named if nit that exactly, its black and has the product name on the side) Not sure how expensive they are but it might be worth buying your neighbour one if its fairly cheap.

Time to move. You will lose the battle.

I smoke weed, but then it's legal here. No-one ever rings my door bell about the smell, it doesn't permeate any halls, rooms. Yes, I have a DS, 30 now. He smoked as a teenager. and does not now. Got it out of his system way before that.

UK needs to legalize it. Like USA, certain states, NL, Switzerland, Jamaica etc.

Better than that coke shit, and heroin, speed etc. Now THEN you have a problem...

Gel fresheners etc all full of toxic stuff that you really don’t want in a baby’s room.
I would call the police, but I can see why you don’t want to as he is the freeholder. Open as many windows as possible and think about moving house.

I have no problem with weed smoking. On a scale of drugs, it’s minor and I would legalise it - I don’t think people should be serving prison sentences for it.

But I HATE the smell. It makes me feel sick and headachey. And my baby has respiratory problems anyway and I worry this won’t help.

Can I do anything to keep the smell out of the house? Draught excluder - anything else?

this is why it should never be legal

I would move if possible. You will never keep the smell out and will roast in the summer if you have to keep the windows closed because it.

Smoking weed is very antisocial and I wish that the police or council would do something about it.

Actually marijuana isn't just an innocent drug it can increase users chances mental health issues. Yes it can be a great drug for pain but we need to study it more before laws around it are relaxed.

My Not D bro smoked it a lot from about 13 he's now very paranoid and aggressive, everyone I know who smokes it regularly have MH issues.

We had similar problems OP, as well as other issues with our neighbors we kept a record then went to the police, eventually they got an ASBO. Our kids couldn't have their bedroom window open in the summer they smoked that much.

It already is for medical purposes. The UK legalised it a few years back after the parents of an epileptic child lobbied them.

Its not on the NHS but you can get a private prescription for various different reasons and depending on what scheme you use it can be subsidised.

So if you don't want to move then complain to whomever you can explain its affecting your quality of life it certainly was affecting ours when the kids couldn't sleep because of the smell or the heat cause the windows were closed.

So the guy upstairs may well have it for medical reasons. He’s as old as time…

I thought it only came in oral solution/oil form for use from the NHS op I have given it to a patient many years ago.

I would be surprised if smoking - and smoking that much! - was medicinal!

so did I!!

I don't know about what the NHS supply but I know someone who gets 60g of high quality, high strength bud prescribed by a doctor and delivered by a legitimate secure courier firm every month.

Interesting although I hope they don't encourage smoking it and eat it instead???