Do you really wonder if recreational pot smokers smoke like this in their own homes? Really?
Gee, for some reason I get this very vague sense that the OP doesn’t like pot smokers.
I don’t know why exactly, it’s just a feeling I get.
“Pothead”? I thought the current favored descriptor was “druggie”.
That was so day before yesterday. Keep up, will you?
I bet he’s German too.
Could you please explain what you mean by this? What exactly would you do?
Of course not. That is illegal.
But an honest chat about the situation is well within my rights.
If he is dealing, that will be discovered.
It is pretty amusing to witness the level of vitriol in here. I am displeased with an illegal activity occuring where I live.
A perusal of the SDMB Rules will reveal some rather clear language concerning the promotion of illegal activities.
I don’t think anyone is promoting illegal activity, just pointing out that you’re talking about something akin to jay-walking, not 1st degree murder.
Bummer that the guy is doing something that annoys you, but someone suggested you talk to him about it, and that seems much more sensible and likely to get results as opposed to calling in the po-po.
And do you not get that the first step in this process is calling the cops and not the FBI? Why would you want to wast the FBI’s time?
I don’t think anyone here is promoting smoking weed. We do think you’re making a mountain out of a molehill, though. Possession of small amounts of pot in New York is a misdemeanor and hardly a priority of local law enforcement. And the Feds aren’t going to go after a small-time recreational user.
Lol it’s funny that you think the FBI cares one bit that your neighbor is smoking pot.
Course, didn’t you also call the FBI to report child abuse when you watched a movie in which Colin Farrell kissed a teenager?
If it bothered me so much, I’d talk to my neighbor and ask them to use an air purifier, or try the cracked window and fan method first. Hell, if it bothered me so much, I’d buy them a damn air purifier. But it doesn’t. I’ll take the smell of weed over tobacco every single time. No one smokes tobacco in my part of the building, and that makes me happiest. Some weed smell in the hall, maybe coming under my front door a little, a couple-few times a day? Whatever. I also know a random piss test won’t ever be a problem for me, since I don’t smoke it myself. Seriously, do you stay away from poppy seeds, too?
If worse came to worst, I’d set up an air purifier either in the hallway (most likely source of scent transfer) or in my own place and be done with it. What a puss.
Get over it Captain Buzzkill.
NY legalized medical marijuana in July (that would be August, 2014 by your calculations) and either way it was as much of a crime as jaywalking or parking in a loading zone.
I don’t promote these activities, but I do laugh at people who would threaten to file a report with federal authorities about them. The FBI would give you the code name “Mrs. Kravitz” and laugh at you too.
I don’t know what everyone does. I’m just saying that I do it the way I described, and no one seems to notice. Unless every neighbor I’ve ever had has smelled it and had an MYOB policy, which I kind of doubt. So if the OP’s neighbor was more clinical, this thread might not have been started.
Cartooniverse is the kind of neighbor that would convince me to start smoking pot.
Best of luck to you. I’m not sure where in NY you are, but one of the reasons we left NYC is because we called the police probably 30 times over the course of a year about stupid, horrible pothead neighbors and nothing was done. We called the Feds, spoke with the DEA, the whole nine, and no one did anything about it at all. I was sick of having headaches every day and knowing that no one would ever respect my desire to not have that shit smelling up my apartment and that my infant daughter was exposed to it. We are in Massachusetts now and haven’t had an issue. In the end moving is probably going to be your only option.
No.
Ooooooh, I get it. So you are now deciding which crimes are just so petty as to be waved off? Wow. I didn’t know we had the NY State Attorney General as a member. Welcome to the Straight Dope.
I don’t care what the state of New York did in July. Please do show me the law on the books that allows someone to be smoking pot in their apartment. You can’t. There is no law on the books permitting the use of pot that has not been medically prescribed and the jackass downstairs cannot have a medical pot card because in this state they do not exist. Passing a medical pot law is all well and good. Opening up licensed dispensaries and issuing cards and having people like The Hempmeister toking up his doobies downstairs is quite another thing. When there are legally obtained bags of pot in this city, you come back and revisit this thread. Until then, fuck-all for the laws that were passed, because they are a theoretical piece of legislation right up to the moment that the first legal does is issued by a licensed dispensary.
-Shrug- You do as you wish. I do as I wish. Welcome to America, pal. I chose to live in a place where I am not directly involved with someone else’s (for now) illegal drug use. YMMV.
My old across-the-hall neighbors used to smoke a ton of pot. They usually went in and out the back door, so they probably didn’t realize the hall frequently smelled strongly.
I was going to leave them a note, too. It would have said something like “Hi. Maybe you didn’t realize that the hall smells pretty strongly of pot sometimes. It doesn’t bother me, but I thought you’d want to know in case you wanted to put a rolled-up towel at the base of the door or something. Thanks!” But then they moved.
You are not in any way involved with their drug use, except in that you choose to complain about it despite it having no effect on you.
I’m not the one who decided it. I’m just stating it as the fact that it is.
Go get’em deepthroat. I’m sure the feds will offer you some kind of reward for putting an end to this crime wave.
And incidentally it isn’t a crime, it is a ‘violation’ and yes there is a legal distinction in terms of the New York codes.
As soon as it is I hope it is prescribed to you, at least if “laughable misguided rage” is one of the illnesses covered. In the mean time I’ll just laugh at your impotent flailing about and maybe report you to the federal government because your posts infringe on my right to a hothead-free environment.
Get over it. Or maybe, you know, talk to the guy, like others have suggested, if his aroma annoys you so much.