Splif in garden

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We recently purchased a house that's a bit of a project. Very overgrown garden, no boundary with next door. We cleared an area of the garden last week and found some cannibis (loose and a couple of rolled joints) in freezer bags, inside a brick. We assumed it belonged to previous owner and disposed.

This morning we found next doors youngish (13/14) son and a couple of friends in our garden looking inside the bricks. We asked them if they needed anything and they said they had lost something. We explained we had cleared the area and taken a load of rubbish to the dump. Neither of us acknowledged what it was.
I think we need to talk to his mum. We do hear rows so know they have a difficult relationship. Dh thinks none of our business and stay out.

Aibu to think we need to talk to his mum?

I'd want to know if my 13 year old was smoking anything! Heck I'd want to know if my almost 16 year old was smoking!

This county lines hysteria has to stop

@mencken how very dramatic 🙄 young teens smoking weed is hardly anything new! i know many young boys and men who smoked weed at the age, none of them were groomed. i think this county lines thing is something middle class mumsnetters have jumped onto lately. kids on council estates have been smoking and selling weed for bloody years! it doesn’t mean they’re vulnerable or are being manipulating into doing it!

If it was a county lines issue surely he would have been more visibly scared/distressed by finding out the spliffs had been disposed of. What a waste 😂😂

No I wouldn't because I'm sure the mother can smell it on him.

Thanks for the replies... (well the polite ones at least )... consensus seems to be to say nothing. I wasn't planning to be judgemental or complain to his mum and I'm not particularly worried about soft drug use in general but I was a little concerned as he seems young to be experimenting to me - I'm confident on age given his year at secondary school - and that as a parent I would want to know (sounds like you all think she probably knows already anyhow)

Hopefully planning permission for the boundary wall comes through soon!

Just leave it lots of teenagers smoke it, I first smoked it at 14 and I know a lot of people do just on the quiet, I’m sure the parents aren’t silly and have probably smelt it on their child or will do so I wouldn’t get involved

menchen

It's usually off an older sibling or mate, you've been watching too many films.
A lot of people grow their own too.

I'd be pretty upset if any of my kids smoked weed at 13

Stay well out of it