# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/101 "2010-08-04T17:48:42Z")
At the indoor concerts here if they catch you smoking they shake a flashlight and say “stop it!”. Oooooh scary. The only show I can think of without pot was Tom Waits, but he was in a fancy concert hall. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/102 "2010-08-05T00:46:39Z")
Well, I live in the SF Bay Area so I may be an outlier, but I’ve smelled the ganj at the bleeping _Opera_. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/103 "2010-08-06T02:57:51Z")
Almost every concert I have been to. The one that surprised me the most was The Cure in the early '90’s. It seemed like everyone lit up. Same for Aerosmith and ZZ Top. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/104 "2010-08-06T03:12:42Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > Well, I live in the SF Bay Area so I may be an outlier, but I’ve smelled the ganj at the bleeping _Opera_. I’ve read your reply about 5 times. That includes before work, during work and now in the evening. Every single time, I read that as "I’ve smelled the ganj at the bleeping _Oprah_. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/105 "2010-08-12T15:56:31Z")
I wouldn’t really agree that it is “openly” happening. You smell it, but they keep it on the down-low. No one is going to light up in front of an usher. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/106 "2010-08-12T17:23:48Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Yes, for outdoor concerts (Rush, Rolling Stones). Yup. I don’t remember any being smoked at any indoor concerts since smoking’s been banned indoors, but I do remember it at an indoor arena venue back in the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/107 "2010-08-12T17:46:59Z")
When I saw Yes at Alpine Valley (an outdoor venue) in the summer of 1984, there was a lot of it, and it was pretty open. The guys sitting right in front of us lit up the moment the lights went down, and they smoked for the entire concert. Pretty sure I got a contact high out of that one. Fast-forward 24 years, and I went to see Yes again, this time at the Chicago Theater. The average age of the audience is probably somewhere north of 40. And, the moment the lights went down, there was that unmistakable aroma. 😃 (And, yes, this was after the indoor smoking ban went into effect in Illinois.) ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/108 "2010-08-13T18:15:03Z")
Been to three concerts in the last year and there was pot smoking at all of them. No surprise: Paul McCartney Surprise: Pet Shop Boys, Weird Al Yankovic I’m also in the San Francisco area though so granted, my surprise was naive. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/109 "2010-08-13T22:47:08Z")
I was suprised to smell alot of herb at a Blue Rodeo concert. Country rock act. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874/110 "2010-08-14T01:43:07Z")
At every friggin’ concert I’ve ever been to. Which is why I no longer go to concerts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-attended-a-concert-where-marijuana-was-being-smoked-openly/547874.md?page=5)