# Have you attended a concert where marijuana was being smoked openly? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874 "2010-07-24T20:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/1 "2010-07-24T20:27:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/2 "2010-07-24T20:29:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/3 "2010-07-24T20:30:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/4 "2010-07-24T20:31:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/5 "2010-07-24T20:37:10Z")
Quite often, but most concerts I attended were in the Netherlands. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/6 "2010-07-24T20:39:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/7 "2010-07-24T20:43:32Z")
I worked security for a Phish concert once, so Yes. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/8 "2010-07-24T21:02:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/9 "2010-07-24T21:08:21Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > I worked security for a Phish concert once, so Yes. I’ve been to lots of Yes concerts, so Phish. (And yes.) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/10 "2010-07-24T21:09:48Z")
Yes, for outdoor concerts (Rush, Rolling Stones). ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/11 "2010-07-24T21:13:27Z")
Hundreds, most recently a couple months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/12 "2010-07-24T21:28:17Z")
Never been to a concert where there aren’t joints being smoked. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/13 "2010-07-24T21:31:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/14 "2010-07-24T22:09:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/15 "2010-07-24T22:18:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/16 "2010-07-24T22:19:21Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > Never been to a concert where there aren’t joints being smoked. 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. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/17 "2010-07-24T22:46:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/18 "2010-07-24T22:48:20Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > 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 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 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/19 "2010-07-24T22:58:29Z")
I live in Vancouver; I’ve attended university courses where marijuana was being smoked openly. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/20 "2010-07-24T23:10:56Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > Never been to a concert where there aren’t joints being smoked. 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.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874.md?page=2)