I will take ANY form of help here, for the last 2 years now we have had a neighbour very close smoking the most rotten smelling skunk/cannabis. I will start by saying I have no interest in what people do in their own home & I am not against cannabis completley, I am however against my home smelling of it from as early as 7.30am until 2am the following morning every 20-30 minutes everyday all day, the summer has been horrendous, both myself & husband work from home & we have been unable to open windows & sit outside for a break, the female does it in her yard very close to us,then there is her wretching & gagging that goes with it, my 10 year old niece will not visit my home anymore as the smell makes her feel physically sick, Christmas day gone I had to cancel all my family coming to my home due to how bad it was, it seemed worse than ever from 7am. I have stage 3 heart failure, every night when I have a bath, I either have to have the window open & want to gag myself or keepo it shut & can barely breathe with my heart failure causing breathlessness, even then that doesn't work as we have vents that stil pull it in.
I tried to approach the female in the summer via text after getting her number & politely asked her if she could do it in her home not right outside in the yard as its just metres away from us, I was met with a tirade of abuse & all the excuses under the sun of why she smokes it (non again I have zero interest in I just want to resolve the issue) I then after snapping again last month I sent another text pleading with her to stop doing it so close & going to the point of telling her it was effecting my health & family won't visit my home & again I was met with abuse.
The issue I have is I own my home & so does she (if like me you are thinking how does she own her own home & smoke skunk hours a day & pay a mortgage I have been informed its paid for by her ex) again non of my business but it does leave a bitter taste when you are sitting working all week unable to open a window because someone doesn't want their home smelling of their own drugs so they choose to inflict it on others all day and night.
The council don't want to know, as we both own properties there is no landlord to help & enviromental health put it back to the police, they did help with her music blasting in the back lane and dog barking reported by another neighbour last year but they can't for the drugs as its a police matter.
I have lost count of the amount of times I have contacted the police, they drive by mostly but never actually knock, however when I rang 101 Christmas day two officers did go out and see her & they got into her an altercation with her when they were saying the smell was reeking out of her front door & she was saying it was her air freshener, they told her it was Christmas Day and unacceptable on neighbours, I think they felt sorry for us when they saw our table but no family turning up and they couldn't get over how much our house stunk of it.
Other than the police driving by they can't do much else they say, she has put in a complaint against the police saying that they are harrasing her! So now the police are saying they have to tread carefully
I hare ringing the police, I would never do it unless it was bad and this is bad, her direct neighbour is a young male who says his life is a misery living next to her but because she's very vocal & screams at residents and little children I think nobody has the guts to approach her & as he said he will have to declare it if he moved..... that leads me to me now being screwed, I could not possibly sell my house & not decalre this, morally I would never do that to a potential buyer and not only that say I was in a position to move which we are not how on earth could anyone view the property with it smelling like this?!
Nonbody will help, she is now being pandered to by all accounts with the police as they say that they could seem like they are harrasing her! There is a young child lives with her, I have been told several people have reported her to social services, I dread to think what his life is like, I only hear snippets of the way she speaks to him.
I do not know what to do, its effecting mine & my husbands mental health, its effecting my heart failure symptoms through not being able to ventilate my home, its effecting our ability to concentrate on work, my family will not visit, its embararsing when friends visit, you feel like you try to make light of it but its not funny. Live and let live people say but when you are ruining the enjoyment of someones home its vile, there is a simple solution just do it inside
I can see why people snap & this is the point we are getting to now, I have tried every avenue I can think of, I am dreading the summer. Anyone who says its legal in your own home its simply not, unless you have a prescriped prescription from a registered doctor on the GMC registar it isn't legal because its in your own back yard and thats what her attitude is as she has stated