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

It's not a good comparator at all, do you really think someone smoking pot is in the same state as someone drinking all day?

To be honest they don’t look like the sorts one can reason with. They seem to attract a lot of ‘youths’ that hang around on bicycles in large groups with their hoods up.
I have a 1 year old DD and I’d rather not bring trouble directly to my doorstep - I’d rather report anonymously

I don't need to think, i know. There are similarities and differences, and different people function differently from each other.
However, I think you're missing my point. I replied to pp who made the comparison between this situation and a couple of glasses of wine.

Yeah report to police, social services and their housing association, it may help to build a picture.

The police aren't going to go to their house on the off-chance they might catch them smoking weed out of a window.

Even if they happened to stumble across it they wouldn't do anything.

I'd report to social services, on the basis that they don't seem to be able to keep their kids safe. Poor children. If anything were to happen to them, you need to know you took the limited action available to you.

It’s not a police issue. It’s definitely a social services issue. Have you noticed any other details about the kids? Are they well turned out? Is the 4 year old left unsupervised for long periods outside?

You can report them.

When I reported my neighbours (he would smoke weed and then drive erratically afterwards) the police did nothing. He has been doing this for years. Someone needs to be hurt or killed I guess.

Parents drinking alcohol is not the same as parents smoking cannabis. I don't drink out of choice, but I could have a glass of wine with a meal every evening and would only really be damaging my own body, and that over a sustained period of time. I wouldn't be damaging my child's health and it wouldn't make me zone out or impair my ability to attentively supervise my child. Smoking cannabis around them would have some of the dangers of passive smoking, make them and their home smell of weed, and they would be able to tell I wasn't completely there mentally whilst high, which can be scary and damaging for a child. The dangers associated with regularly drinking small amounts of alcohol are long-term. Cannabis use can more quickly negatively affect those around the user.

I would report to social services and emphasize that you want to remain anonymous for your own safety. Make sure to mention other people hanging around and that you have known parents to smoke weed around the kids. Social services may not do anything, and if they do you might not see visible results quickly. They will be building a picture though, and you will have done what you can to keep the children safe.

I don't have a problem with other adults smoking cannabis btw, just not around children and preferably not in a way that causes a smelly nuisance to their neighbours.

This. Strong correlation between weed and mental health problems, a wider family member has schizophrenia triggered by smoking weed as a teenager.