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How do you get rid of cannabis smells?

47 replies

Secretloverofsparklystuff · 15/01/2025 00:01

My neighbour must smoke tonnes of cannabis, the smell comes into my house, its awful, the whole of my upstairs stinks and i get terrible headaches from it. Ive tried reporting it to various places and just get past from pillar to post, its driving me insane. Any help please??TIA

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HeadacheEarthquake · 15/01/2025 00:36

No advice but a handhold and following for advice.

Me and DH have a spliff once in a blue moon down the end of the garden wewy from the houses so we're not even bothered too much about the odd whiff but our neighbor chongs it like a bonfire and it stinks.

Best I can do is close windows and burn candles and wax or turn up the 3volution when she's at it then air out the house even in arctic temperature when it's over

It gets into my car seats - friends have asked me recently if I'm carrying

HeadacheEarthquake · 15/01/2025 00:36

Away*

Promise I haven't had one this eve 😅

Branster · 15/01/2025 00:54

Not helpful I know, but am I alone in not being able to smell cannabis smoke? Is there a special power I am missing? I can smell normal cigarette smoke so I'm not completely useless as a smoke detector.
On a couple of occasions it happened to me that I'd be walking with a friend and we'd be passing another individual and my friend would say that person was smoking cannabis. I couldn't smell anything!

Would incense sticks help? Or simmering rosemary or lemon peel on the stove for a bit? Cooking caramel is quite a powerful scent (although very easy to burn).
Not the best of smells but leaning on the sharper, cleaner side, very, very strong and it overpowers everything else: some distilled vinegar added to a quarter filled electric kettle. (The solution descales the kettle as it reaches boiling point).
If you have pets you need to be careful with perfumed candles because they can be bad for animals if they are not made of natural wax or if they contain certain essential oils. Obviously any kind of synthetic air freshener is not good for pets either.

RobinMcfly · 15/01/2025 01:19

i would use those strong scent sticks to mask the smell, the ones you light and it slow fizzles

LionRumpus · 15/01/2025 01:22

An air purifier will do it. It doesn't need to be a hugely expensive one to work. If you can find where the smell is most likely to be coming in from and stick it there, that's the best place.

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:25

I just want to advise that usually this stuff is actually “skunk”, it smells like a rubbish tip on fire, and it spreads everywhere and sticks to everything. It’s probably not real cannabis.
so many people are doing it the police don’t care and the council won’t do anything unless they get a report from the police so you’ll go around in circles.
Seal any windows and doors so it can’t get in as much. you have two options here - make their life hell too so they move. Not in an obvious way. But make a real effort.
or move yourself

suburberphobe · 15/01/2025 01:29

Better never go on holiday anywhere in the world.....

I have more problem with car exhausts. More killing too.

suburberphobe · 15/01/2025 01:31

i would use those strong scent sticks to mask the smell, the ones you light and it slow fizzles

They're lovely. Called incense. Gets rid of cooking smells etc. too.

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:32

Weed is literally a drug and even second or 3rd hand smoke from it can cause psychotic episodes, alter the brain and make you cognitively disabled, and a number of other effects

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:32

@suburberphobe

paranoiaofpufflings · 15/01/2025 01:44

Oh following with interest, I have the same problem with my neighbour! The smell makes me feel sick, can't stand it.
I've tried candles, incense, air fresheners, fabreeze, nothing seems to get it.

LionRumpus · 15/01/2025 01:50

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:32

Weed is literally a drug and even second or 3rd hand smoke from it can cause psychotic episodes, alter the brain and make you cognitively disabled, and a number of other effects

That sounds vanishingly unlikely, if not impossible.

LionRumpus · 15/01/2025 01:51

Definitely third hand cannabis smoke. Sorry, I think we'd know if there were any real danger of people becoming disabled or psychotic from being in the same place someone smoked weed.

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:53

LionRumpus · 15/01/2025 01:50

That sounds vanishingly unlikely, if not impossible.

Search for it if you don’t believe me

LionRumpus · 15/01/2025 02:00

I have. I don't find anything that indicates there's any real possibility of this happening.

Perhaps you have some links of some news articles where people have reported this happening to them? I see nothing.

Lafee · 15/01/2025 03:20

Some smells can be negative or positive, and some smells i can actually conjure up from the memory of them... such as the tang of vinegar on a bag of chips, or the smell of bacon cooking, or even bbq aromas.
These are all pleasant smells for me, but can be obnoxious to someone else.

Like a pp. if a cannabis user passes me in the street, I usually "know".
That smell is distinctive, but it doesn't disgust me, however, nicotine breath makes me want to puke 🤮

I do understand that others don't want to be subjected to unwanted smells, and because it's believed to be harmful second hand, or even third hand, I suppose it should be accountable for...
... as pp said tho', I doubt very much if police or any other authorities would do anything about it, even if they did care.

Try lookup the burning of bay leaves... that may help with counteracting it.

At least, burning bay leaves is meant to be (safely) calming, so at least then, the smell of cannabis, may become a non-issue 🤔

2024riot · 15/01/2025 04:13

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:32

Weed is literally a drug and even second or 3rd hand smoke from it can cause psychotic episodes, alter the brain and make you cognitively disabled, and a number of other effects

Have you made this up ?

Secretloverofsparklystuff · 15/01/2025 07:02

Branster · 15/01/2025 00:54

Not helpful I know, but am I alone in not being able to smell cannabis smoke? Is there a special power I am missing? I can smell normal cigarette smoke so I'm not completely useless as a smoke detector.
On a couple of occasions it happened to me that I'd be walking with a friend and we'd be passing another individual and my friend would say that person was smoking cannabis. I couldn't smell anything!

Would incense sticks help? Or simmering rosemary or lemon peel on the stove for a bit? Cooking caramel is quite a powerful scent (although very easy to burn).
Not the best of smells but leaning on the sharper, cleaner side, very, very strong and it overpowers everything else: some distilled vinegar added to a quarter filled electric kettle. (The solution descales the kettle as it reaches boiling point).
If you have pets you need to be careful with perfumed candles because they can be bad for animals if they are not made of natural wax or if they contain certain essential oils. Obviously any kind of synthetic air freshener is not good for pets either.

My sister cant smell it either, i wish i had that superpower 😂
We usually have a candle or wax melts on and have plug in air fresheners upstairs but they dont help at all

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Secretloverofsparklystuff · 15/01/2025 07:03

LionRumpus · 15/01/2025 01:22

An air purifier will do it. It doesn't need to be a hugely expensive one to work. If you can find where the smell is most likely to be coming in from and stick it there, that's the best place.

Thats great thank you, i will buy one today and try that out

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Secretloverofsparklystuff · 15/01/2025 07:06

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:25

I just want to advise that usually this stuff is actually “skunk”, it smells like a rubbish tip on fire, and it spreads everywhere and sticks to everything. It’s probably not real cannabis.
so many people are doing it the police don’t care and the council won’t do anything unless they get a report from the police so you’ll go around in circles.
Seal any windows and doors so it can’t get in as much. you have two options here - make their life hell too so they move. Not in an obvious way. But make a real effort.
or move yourself

Yes, ive been going round in circles, have reported it to 101, anti social team, environmental health, and crime stoppers, all at the advice of the previous one, but unless theres evidence of them growing it they wont do anything.

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MaloryJones · 15/01/2025 07:06

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:32

Weed is literally a drug and even second or 3rd hand smoke from it can cause psychotic episodes, alter the brain and make you cognitively disabled, and a number of other effects

Ridiculous

Secretloverofsparklystuff · 15/01/2025 07:09

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:25

I just want to advise that usually this stuff is actually “skunk”, it smells like a rubbish tip on fire, and it spreads everywhere and sticks to everything. It’s probably not real cannabis.
so many people are doing it the police don’t care and the council won’t do anything unless they get a report from the police so you’ll go around in circles.
Seal any windows and doors so it can’t get in as much. you have two options here - make their life hell too so they move. Not in an obvious way. But make a real effort.
or move yourself

Posted too soon, also meant to add,
I would love to move house but we're not in a position to do that, neighbour has only recently bought their house and is doing extensive upgrades on it, so they wont be moving out anytime soon, sadly.

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Secretloverofsparklystuff · 15/01/2025 07:12

suburberphobe · 15/01/2025 01:29

Better never go on holiday anywhere in the world.....

I have more problem with car exhausts. More killing too.

Hardly the same thing. Walking past people in the street or being on holiday is a temporary smell you then move away from. This is in my house, causing my house to stink, on a regular basis, affecting my children

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Longtermuser · 15/01/2025 07:14

Lovelybitofsquirrel3 · 15/01/2025 01:53

Search for it if you don’t believe me

Give us a clue then, which medical studies? I'd be interested to read those. Or was it Dr Google?

IdLikeMyMomentInTheSunshine · 15/01/2025 07:15

Air sanitiser

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09254CX4G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

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