To want to be able to sit in my own garden?

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...or at least open a window?

Here we are all cooped up because my neighbours seem to find it neccessary to smoke joint after joint all day long.

I mean REALLY. Who needs to be stoned at 10am? And remain stoned all day? It fucking stinks out there, this is supposed to be a 'nice' area. Shall I just call the police?

Yes.

no

Just go outside and stay downwind. You are being silly. Any smell stops being noticed after a few minutes.

Is it rented accommodation? A landlord is not allowed to permit their premises to be used for taking drugs, so you could notify the landlord.

You could report to crimestoppers...the Police are more likely to react to suggested dealing though,depends how you word it.

Are there children in the premises?

better still, sit outside upwind

at least you will get the benefit

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YANBU. Your neighbour is being totally inconsiderate. Maybe have a word though before you call the police.

Don't know if it's rented, I'm not sure how to go about finding out.

Yes they have children, I've seen a young boy.

I don't think I am being silly, and how can I stay downwind? Move around the garden as the wind changes? not very logical.

Nooo don't want to sit upwind! Cannabis and I do not mix well.

I just wish people could learn to control their drug usage really. I wouldn't have such a problem with it if it was in the evening. I wouldn't crack open strong beer and drink it throughout the day, why should smoking be any different?

If there is constant drug use in the house with children present I would make a referral to social services

Have you tried complaining to them?

If you did it politely but firmly, making it clear that you know what the smell is, they might back off out of fear that you are going to report them - then you won't have to

mine do that as well, have to keep back windows shut

we have a big cat litter tray garden that we cant use which is a shame for the kids

social services?! that seems a bit extreme.

I haven't tried speaking to them directly, we've only been here a few weeks. What if they begin a campaign of fear and harassment?

I don't think it's extreme if their child is exposed to drug taking.
I think if you speak to them and end up reporting them, they will twig who reported it, so it's very difficult.

you could take the cowards option and slip a note through the door

that's what my dickhead neighbours do

Call the police and social services! No child should be exposed to persistant drug taking.

YANBU, the smell of cannibis is very distinctive and invasive. Would not be very happy about my children being exposed to it in their own back garden all the time.

Personally would be too much of a coward to approach them directly but would consider phoning local council for advice on this sort of anti-social behaviour. Less dramatic than the police and they would probably know the best way to proceed.

yuk, would annoy me too.

And it is not true that any smell stops being noticed. I had a bad smell in my nose for several years, due to an infection that wouldnt clear up, and everyone kept trotting out this myth that I couldnt possibly smell it, because it was there all the time...I could.

YANBU
I'd call the police (local not 999) then I'd call Social services.

They're being inconsiderate but they maybe don't know that it is affecting you so badly. I'd have a quiet word if you feel comfortable approaching them about it, getting SS and police seem too extreme unless they are really anti-social in other ways too.

Why is protecting children from drug abuse extreme tallulabell74?

i would call the police too

It's not extreme, but the OP has to live beside her neighbours, and they could fall out big time and things might get nasty if they go down that route initally. Why not talk to them first? The very fact that someone has noticed what they are doing might be enough to stop it?

They are breaking the law! The op should be able to spend time in her own property without illegal substances floating around fgs!

Alouiseg - Of course she does. But what will the police do? A warning? A fine? And meanwhile the OP is left living beside neighbours who will probably have their own ideas about who 'grassed them' (no pun intended).

She said that she has not been there very long - will her neighbours turn on her family? She probably doesn't know what they're like. That is why I suggest she tries talking to them first. If they are unreasonable or in any way aggressive then yes - call the police but it would look better for her case if she had approached them, it didn't work, and then had to go to the authorities.