Constant smell of weed next door- are they growing it?

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the house next door smells strongly and constantly of weed. If it was just occasional I wouldn’t really be that bothered but it’s literally all the time and smells so strong it sometimes makes me feel a bit sick when I go near. The house isn’t even that close to our boundary, a good 20-30ft with trees and shrubs. It is very tucked away from the road down an almost private drive shared with one other house. We are on another street but the ends of our gardens adjoin. I went and had a nosey the other day and there are two vans parked on their drive (like camper vans but with blacked out windows, not tradesmen’s vans iyswim) and a skip. I’m suddenly imagining a high level drugs crime syndicate with gun-toting kingpin! Am I being over-dramatic?

Which bit hun?

The 100% certain that NDN is Albanian.

I think anyone involved in law enforcement, county lines, anti-trafficking, healthcare or just generally engaged in cannabis culture will tell you the same.

It might not be a palatable narrative but it is the prevailing one at present.

Used to be homegrown thugs on the A55 corridor into Wales and Ireland. Now it's definitely an increasing number of European criminals. There was a big raid on barbers shops in our area the other week. The police weren't raiding shops owned by locals.

I also think that most thoughtful people in those jobs would know that suggesting, on Mumsnet, that a whole nations worth of people in the UK should be looked at with mistrust, isn’t a great idea for a whole ton of reasons.

Organized crime is almost always ethnically divided and it defends its territories pretty fiercely. Any group that controls the drug trade is going to work very hard to have a monopoly and keep other groups out.

I supposed maybe gangs could be likely targets for DEI education? We might then see them become more inclusive.

I think given we’re all such smart middle class ladies that we can deduce that I’m speaking quite specifically about the Albanian criminal gangs who grow cannabis, very specifically.

This, never mind the smell the OP has to put up with.

Darling, I’m just dying to hear what you do for work?

Yes, or you can fill out a form online any time.

& it's a huge fire risk

Clearly not as you seemiingly are observing it.

It won't be fly-tipped! Too feckin expensive

Join in; holiday money!

Observed generally means seen or watched, I can only smell it. Because it is secluded I can’t get close enough to the house without it being really obvious (ie walking right down the drive) to see anything really. Tried to figure out if the windows of the house were covered up but I wasn’t sure from the distance. At the back there are big trees and shrubs. Potentially it could be either of the two houses on that driveway, but the smell is so strong in my garden I’m assuming the closer one.