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I like the smell of most strains of cannabis, but sometimes it is gross (I suspect because it's been mixed with tobacco). If it bothers you, you could take it

I like the smell of most strains of cannabis, but sometimes it is gross (I suspect because it's been mixed with tobacco). If it bothers you, you could take it up with your neighbors just as you would if they were blasting loud music late at night. Criminalizing it just leads to absolutely ruined lives and misery on a much worse scale than just an unpleasant smell.

adventured 5y ago
Taking it up with the neighbors will work zero times out of zero. If you're lucky you'll get a brief reprieve, which will then slip back. This goes for most any annoying, persistent externality when living amongst piles of other people. Their habits and behaviors are not going to change voluntarily to please strangers, even if they initially make a small token gesture to be polite. For anyone dealing with that situation, the only truly effective solution is to make sure the next time that you choose an apartment complex where the landlord does not allow smoking on the premises (whether tobacco or marijuana).
- 8ytecoder 5y ago
  Most apartments have a no-smoking clause in their lease -it’s grounds for eviction. The problem though is it’s also usually illegal to smoke it in public.
- bhawks 5y ago
  While I am not going to disagree with you - I do want to share something that took a long time for me to learn about apartment living (going from a middle class upbringing in a small town and being somewhat of an introvert). Make a conscious effort to get to know your apartment neighbors. Help carrying some bags to their door, share some food or drinks, talk about friends/family/local events, send them a new years card... If your only interactions are asking to turn the volume down or don't do the $annoying_thing, yes you'll get that response. And yeah some times you'll have neighbors that simply won't engage in community building but once I figured this out I realized those people are the exception not the rule. I also ended up getting some relationships that I would have never been exposed to in my professional or personal life.
  - easytiger 5y ago
    That doesn't work. In particular in modern buildings there might be 600+ residents with very few apartments per floor. The vectors for spreading of air between apartments can be varied. Internal, external, air intakes, communal infrastructure etc. How this relates to the unavoidable and highly pungent smell of weed I do not know
- rytill 5y ago
  > zero times out of zero Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
easytiger 5y ago
> Criminalizing it just leads to absolutely ruined lives and misery on a much worse scale than just an unpleasant smell. Not really. If you can't sleep in your own bed because a pungent smell of shit permeates your home that's not acceptable. You might be happy to live like that but civilised people are not

adventured 5y ago

Taking it up with the neighbors will work zero times out of zero. If you're lucky you'll get a brief reprieve, which will then slip back. This goes for most any annoying, persistent externality when living amongst piles of other people. Their habits and behaviors are not going to change voluntarily to please strangers, even if they initially make a small token gesture to be polite. For anyone dealing with that situation, the only truly effective solution is to make sure the next time that you choose an apartment complex where the landlord does not allow smoking on the premises (whether tobacco or marijuana).

8ytecoder 5y ago
Most apartments have a no-smoking clause in their lease -it’s grounds for eviction. The problem though is it’s also usually illegal to smoke it in public.
bhawks 5y ago
While I am not going to disagree with you - I do want to share something that took a long time for me to learn about apartment living (going from a middle class upbringing in a small town and being somewhat of an introvert). Make a conscious effort to get to know your apartment neighbors. Help carrying some bags to their door, share some food or drinks, talk about friends/family/local events, send them a new years card... If your only interactions are asking to turn the volume down or don't do the $annoying_thing, yes you'll get that response. And yeah some times you'll have neighbors that simply won't engage in community building but once I figured this out I realized those people are the exception not the rule. I also ended up getting some relationships that I would have never been exposed to in my professional or personal life.
- easytiger 5y ago
  That doesn't work. In particular in modern buildings there might be 600+ residents with very few apartments per floor. The vectors for spreading of air between apartments can be varied. Internal, external, air intakes, communal infrastructure etc. How this relates to the unavoidable and highly pungent smell of weed I do not know
rytill 5y ago
> zero times out of zero Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

easytiger 5y ago

> Criminalizing it just leads to absolutely ruined lives and misery on a much worse scale than just an unpleasant smell. Not really. If you can't sleep in your own bed because a pungent smell of shit permeates your home that's not acceptable. You might be happy to live like that but civilised people are not