I don’t know if any concerts even allow smoking at all. I’m watching the dvd of the 1987 Genesis tour and I remember being a shocked 18 year old at all the people at the Orange Bowl in Miami openly smoking marijuana.
Plenty, but as you say, smoking is now largely prohibited at gigs so that makes it a rarer scene than when I were a younger lad.
I noticed it at almost every concert I’ve been to. B.J. Thomas was the lone exception.
It’s the primary reason I don’t go to concerts anymore. I just can’t stand the smell of it. Well,… that and the fact that it is too loud and and I am too old.
Of course. I don’t know what kind of concert doesn’t have marijuana being smoked openly, but definitely not one I would want to go to.
Quite often, but most concerts I attended were in the Netherlands.
Wow, you mean it isn’t done that way now? You’ve got to remember that most of my concert going was in the very early '70s.
I worked security for a Phish concert once, so Yes.
Pot at concerts? Sure, plenty. In smoking prohibited venues.
Hell, I just saw someone the other day smoking a joint sitting in a car in a grocery store lot. The woman appeared to be in her late 30’s to early 40’s, and was in a new-looking minivan, puffing smoke out the driver’s window. I wouldn’t have noticed except my car was parked next to hers and that smell is unmistakable.
I’ve been to lots of Yes concerts, so Phish. (And yes.)
Yes, for outdoor concerts (Rush, Rolling Stones).
Hundreds, most recently a couple months ago.
Never been to a concert where there aren’t joints being smoked.
When I was a teen, I sold T-shirts, programs and sno-cones at concerts in the Kansas City area. So I say pot being smoked at concerts at Kemper Arena and at Municipal Auditorium.
But neither of those were like the Summerjam concerts at Arrowhead Stadium. I made a ton of money selling sno-cones because I was one of the only vendors willing to actually go down onto the field, stepping over bodies. Half the sno-cones I sold would be without syrup, people paying the price of a sno-cone for the convenience of having ice delivered.
Virtually all the people on the field were smoking pot - the cops were cool about. Either that, or the idea of arresting someone in the middle of a huge crowd on the field of a football stadium didn’t appeal to them either.
Hell I was at a concert once where the guy next to me started smoking, in a non smoking arena. Not even 10 feet away was the security guard and when I asked him to tell the guy to stop he just shrugged.
I think that a lot of the metal shows I go to no one smokes openly. In Virginia I think they allow you to smoke in bars still, but can’t remember ever seeing it. Then again the places I go to hold like 300 people.
Dec 2000- Inside concert, Louisville KY, the band was CREED. I asked my friend who took me “Am I smelling what I think I’m smelling?” She pointed to the row in front of us where a joint was being passed, “Yup!”
None of that crap going on in Indy Spring 2001 at the Tori concert we attended! No sirree!
AFAIK.
This. Even though I stopped doing it myself, it doesn’t bother me…though at a Smashing Pumpkins concert I did once achieve the fabled contact high.
I think the smokiest concert I’ve been to was 1988?9? UB40 concert in Hilo, HI. Pop reggae on the Big Island. Oh, yeah. You couldn’t see the stage.
I go to pop concerts and rap concerts- so recent stuff. I haven’t been to a concert in ages where there wasn’t a ton of pot being smoked. And I notice, too! I hate hate hate the smell, so I am hyper aware.
50 Cent? Tons of pot everywhere.
Lady Gaga? Pot.
etc etc
I live in Vancouver; I’ve attended university courses where marijuana was being smoked openly.
This. I went to a concert with my dad once at the age of 14 or so (it was U2) and that smell wafted by. Dad and I kind of exchanged an awkward glance and it was like: should I say something about it? If I do, he’ll know I know what it smells like and then there’ll be all kinds of uncomfortable silences and weird questions and…
And then pop leans over and says, “It wouldn’t be a real rock concert without that smell, would it?” The he began singing Skynard’s “That Smell.”