NDN smoking weed

[Frania]

NDN is a man in his late thirties who moved back in with his parents a few years ago. Parents have lived here for 30 years. We get on fine with them when we see them. We just say hi and have a small bit of chit chat and then get on our way. Since we moved in (2 and half years ago) the son has been smoking weed, and it did annoy me a bit then, but I just got on with it. However, it is really bugging me now. WIBU to report him? Truthfully, I’m worried that if I report him, although it would be anonymous, I think it would be pretty obvious it was me, and I don’t want to be worried about them being petty or nasty towards me back, even though I’m not the one smoking an illegal drug in the middle of the day in the garden.

We also get this drifting over from the garden next door - and one of the occupants is a police officer!
I hate the smell, much worse than tobacco IMO.

I hate the smell of weed. We have a neighbour who's fond of it and it stinks out our garden, but there's not much you can do. It's what comes with living close to others. Same as kids screaming constantly/dogs barking incessantly etc.

Ug my previous neighbour did this. He stood outside his kitchen back door smoking, which was opposite our kitchen back door (fence in between) but the smell would waft into our house. We had the door open as we had a dog.

I got fed up of the smell so just had a word with him and asked him to smoke down the end of his garden. He was fine with that.

Could you either have a word with him or ask his parents to speak to him?

It’s a mild whiff occasionally. You can’t possibly be in the garden every single time he lights up. Stop being such a drama queen and certainly do not ring the police over someone’s recreational, personal weed habit.

I never touch weed, but one of my NDNs smokes every day. If I happen to be in the garden when he pops outside for his smoke, I can smell it a bit. Ten minutes later he’s finished and I can’t smell it any more. It’s really not a problem. He and his wife are really nice people with polite, well-behaved children and a positively angelic dog; I consider myself lucky that an occasional drifting smell of dope is the only time they even make their presence known, except for the times when they play Bananagrams outside in summer.

FWIW I’d rather catch a whiff of weed for a few minutes now and again then have to smell someone’s perfectly legal barbecue all afternoon.