to wonder if i can report my neighbour to the police?

[lisad123]

I live in a set of terrance house. MY neighbours are very lovely but one neighbour has recently let me grown up son move back in. The thing is, he smokes hash, and quite a fair amount, atleast 4-5 times a day. He used to smoke in the back garden, but whenever I opened my back door it came in the house, and so I asked him to move to the end of the garden, which he did.

He has now started to smoke out by the front door which now means that as I leave the windows in the bedrooms open, my little girls bedroom now smells like hash!!

I have had enough, he has people popping over for a smoke or to drop off his drugs :(

I know his not dealing, and using for personal use, but it stinks! can i do anything?

how can you smoke something but not be in posession of it - by magic

Another vote here for just having another word with him. He moved before, he'll probably move again, especially if you explain in more detail why you're asking. He knows you have a little girl, he knows it's your job to protect her and he'll also know that having hash smoke (or any smoke) drifting around her bedroom is not acceptable. I'm sure he'll be respectful of that and take it back to the bottom of the garden (marijuana smokers as a rule tend to be generally chilled-out, non-confrontational, reasonable people, especially when they've got through their teenage years when, let's face it, pretty much all kids are difficult).

It's really not worth upsetting the apple cart over this by reporting it to the police, it sounds like you have a good relationship with your neighbours and that's always a good thing. If he is difficult however and puts up any sort of resistance, you could always mention that in the interest of doing the best for your daughter, if he doesn't move away from the house you'll have no other option. I doubt it would come to that.

Maybe it's a Clintonesque thing - you know - 'I never inhaled' ...

I smoked it but somebody else held the joint ?

Gordy, I quoted your up to didn't I?

The point I'm making is, there's no point in taking the thread off on a tangent talking about 'up to' 5yrs in prison when this guy is having a joint in his garden.

The police can't search the property without a warrant and they'd not going to be granted one because of a joint being smoked that's annoying the neighbour.

Thing is, if this prawn is smoking weed outside the FRONT door of the house, ANYONE who saw him could see it.

So you could brass it out by saying, "I complained to you about it, if I went to the Police about it, the FIRST thing you'd think was that it was me... I'm not THAT daft...."

Also wondering, do you possess something once it is in your body then?
Am I in possession of the toast I had for breakfast?

Of course the other thing to consider is where the OP lives. If she's out in the sticks where the police don't really have anything better to do then they might actually be interested in someone having a joint in their garden (it would probably make front page news where I live ). If she's in a large town or city then it's likely they'll just suggest she discusses her concerns with the neighbour. They're certainly not going to put any major time or resources into following it up when they have far, far bigger fish to fry.

I'm chuckling at the idea that he might get 5 years

I am in posession of 2 chocolate digestive and a cup of tea - yum!

Personally I would speak to the police. I wouldn't be happy with my DCs growing up thinking that it's acceptable for people to be using drugs. I know that probably sounds rather puritanical to some of you, but I find kids (and age) is making me more frothing daily telegraph reader-ish sensible.

Next doors boyfriend was doing the same thing! He only stays round hers 3 nights a week, they have 3 children together. But the smoke comes directly into our living room where my DS was playing. I went and knocked on the door and let her know. She was fine about it.
The boyfriend hates me now and glares at me!! But maybe he should start spending his money on his kids instead. Lazy tax dodger.

Not sure the police will be interested tbh. We reported our neighbour for taking cocaine in his garage with a load of mates and the police never showed.

A year previously we continually reported the same house next door for being a cannabis farm and the police did nothing for 2 months until the door was kicked in and the house raided by local drug dealers.

I would try speaking to him one last time.

Tell him one of your friends asked you if you'd taken up smoking cannabis because they smelled it in your house when they came round. Tell him that while you might not report it, someone else who comes round and smells it might.

That'll probably do the trick and sets you up as friendly neighbour rather than confrontational one.

at this becoming a thread about what we are in possession of!
thank will knock again later

I would report him.

Just talk to him, ask him to not do it near DD's room - do not waste police time.

Am with previous poster....talk to him...getting police involved really inflates it to whole new level......

you could say you have mates who are police officers who pop round from time to time and you are worried they may smell it

WHy is your son living with your neighbour?

Once a drug is in your system and not in your hand/pocket you are no longer in posession of it. Likewise if you are drug tested you are not in possession of that dryg, but under the influence regardless if the drug is having a physical affect on you (weed stays in your system for a mont, but is unlikely to be affecting you physically after a few hours).

Interestingly there was a guy in america (who would have guessed?) that is trying to argue for the legalisation or such of a drug called DMT. DMT is present in a part of the brain and is only released twice in your life, during birth and when you die) Its a drug that could be the scientific explanation for heaven or the white tunnel/bright light etc. DMT changes our experience of time meaning we may well feel as though we live another life maybe forever, the drug is extremely pwerful, the nuclear bomb of psychoactive drugs.
Anyway, point is he is trying to argue that as it is in every one of us how can we be charged for possession?

I wouldnt tell the police, just speak to him again and say its not in your daughters room. He probebly just thought you wouldnt notice if he started doing it again and this will be a gentle reminder you have.

His not my son, his my neighbours son, sorry was typing quickly earlier and sometimes my phone changes words as well

Have had a word with him so see what happens next