Called police about neighbours

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I live in a small block of flats which is generally full of young families.
A new neighbour moved in a few weeks ago and since then has been smoking weed on his balcony every evening and each weekend morning
I know he has one young child and a wife/girlfriend who live there but the woman doesn't seem to smoke at all that I've seen
I have young DDs and I'm having to keep the balcony door and the windows shut so they can't smell it and so our home doesn't stink
I got home from work last night and it absolutely reeked of weed
I rang 101 and reported them as I was raging
My friend has said she thinks I was being ridiculous and over reacted
What's the consensus please

It would be a breach of tenancy, so I would call the council anyway.
You can let them know that you've already reported it to the police.

It's always s something I've wondered is that if cannabis ever became legal, how are people going to cope with the smell? I find it absolutely vile!
Can you imagine walking down the street and getting a face full of skunk smoke or in a pub garden?

Yanbu the stuff bloody stinks

Mumof56 Fri 28-Jul-17 16:05:12
Do you think your children will get high from the smell of it?

From that response I presume you smoke weed. Regardless of the legalities of it, the smell is invasive and permeates everything so why should anyone have to put up with it?

It's always s something I've wondered is that if cannabis ever became legal, how are people going to cope with the smell? I find it absolutely vile!

The same way they cope with all other vile smells really.

I would have done the same. Ugh!

Our neighbours smoke weed every day😩they are in a council house so is that any different? As in can I report them? They also have a bloody wood burner for the evenings too

YANBU. I'd phone the council too, and as OP mentioned, let them know you've also reported it to the police. If people want to smoke weed that's up to them, but it shouldn't be affecting other people.

YABU about calling 101 straight off. you could have had a word with them about it before calling the police. They might well have no idea the smell goes into your flat

This, the police won't do anything really anyway. They are more interested in tackling the source (i.e the dealers) rather than recreational users.

A better course of action would have been to contact the council as surely it would be a breach of tenancy.

Ywnbu imo. He probably won't be arrested it'll just be a slap on the wrist but hopefully enough to scare him a bit!
But to all the posters saying the op should have spoken to him first I disagree. He could be an aggressive man (as my upstairs neighbour was when I went to talk to him) and it's not the ops responsibility to tell him not to do something illegal. It's the police's. At that point it'd also be very obvious who had called the police if it got to that point.

I don't think you should have had to speak to them first

Say you had spoken to them and they had been really unreasonable and angry.

Then if you subsequently called the police it could have caused a world of problems as they would have known it was you.

YANBU.

@Theweasleytwins under a council house tenancy any kind of drug use means that the tenancy is void and they will be faced with threats of eviction. Do with that what you will.

I know because I used to live in one

You absolutely did the right thing. Your neighbor is the one causing problems. It's not fair of him to put you in a situation where his actions are affecting you, and you certainly shouldn't be put in a position where you feel vulnerable or threatened in your own home which you may have been if you had confronted him first. That's his doing. You absolutely 100% did the right thing.

I cannot stand the smell of weed - They should not be smoking it at all and certainly not to your detriment. You did the right thing

I think you were perfectly reasonable OP

YANBU

You did fine. The smell is sickly and vile, and once you get a tenant stinking the place out with weed it can affect future tenants in the same block and become a bit of a downward spiral IME. I've experienced this on a couple of occasions over the years and both times it ended badly.

YANBU. Exactly what I would've done.

Never has articulated my thought exactly!

YADNBU, OP

This is going to be clunkily phrased so as not to come close to breaking confidentiality.... I work in a place where people are cared for, some of them are accompanied by various teams when they arrive. A member of one of those teams recently accompanied someone here and handed us a bag, telling us it contained the possessions of the person they had accompanied. Only, they gave us their own bag by mistake- and it contained a variety of interesting items, including drug paraphernalia (the stuff you'd have if you were an IV drug abuser) and weaponry. I reported this to the police, who were uninterested. I was actually told that "if he wants to take drugs that's up to him", and I am still waiting for the promised visit by officers to remove the other, dangerous items from our secure storage.

TLDR: the police are unlikely to care.

Had this shit with previous housemates. My clothes stank. I swear I was stoned some mornings. Spoke to landlord and he was like 'but everyone in London smokes a bit - the police won't want to deal with you'.
Same bastard locked me out of my house at the end of my tenancy (date I was due to move) and just denied to police that I ever lived there! He was so brazen, you couldn't make it up.
1000's of pounds worth of my clothes were in that room. Passport, driving licence (I'm not English so still not replaced due to the bureaucracy), underwear, bank statements, birth certs. Everything I owned basically. I still hope he dies roaring. Cunt.

The police don't care though. They'll take your statement. Blablabla. Last you'll hear of it.

OP I don't blame you but realistically i can't see the police having the inclination or resources to deal with this.

If you don't feel you can approach them yourself then you could report this to the council.

The stuff reeks so I do feel for you.

YABU, he's having a spliff on his balcony. I'm actually pretty surprised this offends you so greatly. Also, nothing will happen - police won't do anything and will probably be pretty irritated by having to attend to that.

Our neighbours smoke weed in their garden but the smell doesn't bother us because it's outside and isn't very strong by the time it drifts over. But our tenants complained about someone in the block smoking as the smell came into the flat. So we told the owner and he got them to stop.

Different situations require different actions so you're not unreasonable to want them to stop but I would have contacted their landlord rather than the police.

@missbax- when I reported they were very helpful and the local Sargent called me within a few days. I couldn't care less if they smoke but when it infiltrates the whole flat including my daughter's bedroom and we have to close windows then the lack of respect or care offends me.