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To think we shouldn't have to have our house stinking of weed

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SantasRubiksCube · 17/06/2024 20:23

Sorry if this is a long one but I'm 29 weeks pregnant and bloody fed up. Next doors teenage daughter is constantly smoking weed out in their backyard (I'm talking every other hour, through the day and late into the night) and the smell is always filling up our house. And I'm not just talking about a slight whiff here and there I'm talking our whole house will stink of it even if we have all the windows shut (which we shouldn't have to). I've said to the neighbour a few times that the smell is really strong and fills our house up, at first she said things like 'I'll get her to smoke it out the front/I'll get her to go further up the backyard' neither of which makes any difference. But now she just ignores us and the daughter will sit by their back door which is close to our bedroom window. I can't dry any laundry out in our backyard as it stinks and I have to rewash it plus I don't want my kids to go to school smelling of it in case the school thinks it's us smoking it. I've tried reporting it but get sent in circles (the council/non urgent police can only do something if they are growing or selling it, can't do anything about 'personal use', they rent from a private landlord not through an estate agent so no idea who their landlord is, our landlord is useless about stuff to do with the house we are in, really can't see them doing anything about neighbours). I hate my house smelling of it, I hate my kids having to smell it all the time, I'm dreading having to have the windows shut in the summer, if we ever get one. AIBU for feeling at my wits end and like there's nothing I can do???

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Smoothiesaresoups · 17/06/2024 20:35

There isn't really anything you can do, as annoying as it is. Except speaking to her yourself. Your OP suggests you have only spoken to the mum. Tell the girl yourself "can you please move further away from the house?" She my might actually listen to you more than when her mum asked her.

SantasRubiksCube · 17/06/2024 20:37

Unfortunately if I said anything to the daughter, all I'd get is a lot of verbal abuse and probably her just laughing in my face.

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Smoothiesaresoups · 17/06/2024 20:39

SantasRubiksCube · 17/06/2024 20:37

Unfortunately if I said anything to the daughter, all I'd get is a lot of verbal abuse and probably her just laughing in my face.

That's a shame. Your only other option is to move then 🤷🏻‍♀️

Fivegodowntothesea · 17/06/2024 20:39

No advice I’m afraid but I really sympathise, our neighbours do it too and I hate it - I wouldn’t care if it didn’t affect us but I can’t bear it in my house. I called the non-urgent police and they couldn’t have cared less, don’t know why they bother keeping it illegal when it’s not enforced.

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