AIBU to report neighbours smoking cannabis around children and the smell?

[Thosebobblybits]

There’s a family a few doors down who constantly are smoking weed. They open up their upstairs back window and hang out of it smoking joints and the smell just wafts in through our windows (our garden backs onto theirs).
they have 3 young kids, one is not more than about 4 years old. When they are out with the parents, the parents are always smoking weed in front of them through the local park and their young son, about 7/8 yrs old has been seen hanging around with older boys on their bicycles whom are all smoking weed.
A week or so ago the youngest girl was picked up by police as she was in the park all by herself and told them that her mummy was sleeping and she wanted to go out so she just opened the front door and left.
I don’t know what further intervention the police will be making with this family but I’ve had enough of sharing a street with them.
i don’t know whether to contact the police and keep doing so until they do something about it or just leave them be.. they are the type that would throw a brick through your window or slash your tyres
used to be such a nice neighbourhood until the trash moved in

Really doubt the police would do anything. If the kid’s been picked up cos she was in a park by herself the police and social services will already be aware. Doubt anything you say will make a difference

It's illegal and smelly, but really, is it any worse than having a couple of glasses of wine or cans of beer in front of your kids? Philosophically wondering, rather than sticking up for weed smokers.

My dad was a heavy weed smoker when I was little. Didn’t make him any less of a good parent, it’s just what he liked to do to relax. I don’t think the weed smoking’s the issue with this family - more the kid being in the park alone etc

I think a better comparator would be, is it any worse (or better) than drinking all day every day in front of your kids. Drinking so you fall asleep and don't know where your 4 year old is. It's less about the substance used as the extent, time and place of the usage.

Report to social care. Their behaviour is illegal
and neglectful.

Rather them be weed smokers, than acoholics. Yabu just leave it alone.

I'm quite sure that the police would have reported concern to ss if they picked up a young child at the park alone and also that the house waa stinking of weed.

I can only imagine the long term impact of weed on a develping brain

Unfortunately if you’re fed up with sharing a street with someone, you have to be the ones to move. You’ve no agency over them, regardless of their parenting skills (or lack there of). Plus personal use of cannabis is pretty much legalised - the police certainly don’t react to it anymore.

This is a social services report needed - highly likely the family are already under their eye but are clearly failing their children

You mean aside from the high potential for cannabis-induced psychosis and personality changes?

That's at the extreme end, obvs. Extreme alcohol usage is also massively damaging to the user and their families.

In these cases, they are as bad as each other.

The school will have picked it up, smell on clothes etc

This. Police will have reported it already. You can make a report sharing concerns about heavy cannabis use by all means, social services may not have that information yet.

The potential isn't high. The percentage of regular cannabis users who develop cannabis related mental illness is between 0.5-2%.

Social care, also if they drive the DVLA. Police and Crime Commissioners are being phased out, so no point in contacting them if the police are doing very little.

Poor kids having such shit parents.

Unfortunately the police are so busy and it's so common, that the police are unlikely to do anything.

If they have a lot of quick visitors and it looks like they are dealing, you might get a bit more attention.

If the police picked up the kid, if they deemed making a referral to SS was needed they would have done.

Understand you don’t like the smell but not much you can do about it tbh, unless they are dealers and have a huge amount of weed in the house no one will do anything.

Have you ever tried talking to them and asking them nicely, to not blow smoke towards your house

That’s not cannabis it the synthetic stuff. Please know your facts.

Cannabis can cause psychosis and other mental health disorders but it's really rare. Spice/synthetic cannabinoids are a whole other category.

Im with you op i had similar with me neighbours. They smoke it in their garden. And it comes into my house. I live in a townhouse I can't always get up the top to close the windows. It gives me a headache as soon as the smell hits. My whole house smells of weed. Summer is awful sun blazing throgh the shut window its like a green house. Apprently the smell doesn't do harm but it's awful.

I have never reported because I have to live here for many years and uts closed down.

Im not sure police care its seems ti be smoked freely round here.

Regarding the child. The police should have done a merlin report to social services. So they likely know.

It’s not the weed on its own that would concern me. More the whole thing so I would report your concerns in the hope that it boosts any prior reports they’ve received (if any) and the incident with the police. Realistically if you’re walking around smoking weed with your kids you’re not likely to be the best parent. It might help get them the support they need.

Report definitely. Gross.

I wouldn't personally. I don't really see either SS or the police considering it of significant importance.

Imagine the police having to deal with every time someone said they smelled cannabis in the park?

Police won't do anything, social services won't do anything for that alone, but given they will have just had a report of a child being unsupervised out of the home, heavy cannabis use is part of a pattern of risk.