# Pot smoke, again **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** weed-pot-marijuana\ **Created:** [March 22, 2022, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467 "2022-03-22T05:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/41 "2022-03-23T16:31:15Z")
When I said you sound awfully sensitive, my intention was to indicate that your breathing seemed awfully sensitive to pulmonary irritants. Your interpretation suggests that I may have been too restrictive in my intent. Rant on! And where do I subscribe to the **kayaker** cultural experience? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/42 "2022-03-23T17:34:23Z")
I live in the country with neighbors about 100 yards away and I’m sure they can smell it when I am smoking in the garage. At first one of the neighbors would call the kids to come into the house when they smelled it, they soon gave up. I think the kids educated them on what the smell was and can we just go out and play? August and September is when there are mature plants growing in the garden outside and it smells like I am raising some really angry skunks. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/43 "2022-03-23T17:40:07Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > The asthma may not be relevant, the smoke doesn’t actually make me wheeze or anything, it just tickles my throat and wants to trigger coughing. That’s interesting. Do you get the same reaction if you just smell it on somebody’s clothing? ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/44 "2022-03-23T20:11:46Z")
You can try positive pressure, having a fan from a known clean source blow into your home, and hopefully block smoke from entering. We lowered radon levels by positively pressuring the lower level. After a while we went with the ‘standard’ sub-slab depressurization but positive pressure did work to keep out a gas. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/45 "2022-03-23T22:58:10Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > And considering the number of other ways (or so I’ve heard) that there are to enjoy pot, why not try a method that doesn’t bother the other people around you? Have you explained your problem to the neighbor and worked with him to have a fair solution? Even my brother the cigarette smoker has switched to other methods to be nicer the lungs of those around him. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/46 "2022-03-23T23:22:50Z")
Pot stink is nasty, far worse than tobacco. And it lingers. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/47 "2022-03-24T03:59:10Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > August and September is when there are mature plants growing in the garden outside and it smells like I am raising some really angry skunks. None of my dozen plants smelled like skunk, and very little flower I find here in CO smell skunky. It seems like the strains around me have bred the skunk smell out. The weed from the 80’s was way more stinky and skunky then what i grow today. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/48 "2022-03-24T16:55:24Z")
I live in NW Oregon near the coast and the season is just too short for Sativa strains, the plants will just start to develop flowers and then the rains start around the first of October and they will be lost to mold and stem rot. I wish I had a long, dry October but it has been years. I have been growing a landrace (found in the wild and unhybridized) strain of Afghani that finishes up nicely right before the rains set in. And it stinks. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/49 "2022-03-24T17:01:16Z")
Afghani is one of my favorites to smoke, and when i grew (indoors) it was an easy plant to work with. And yeah, sticky and stinky! ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467/50 "2022-03-24T17:08:42Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > One of the improvements we did make here was to get rid of our furnace and install a hydronic heating system. The water boiler uses natural gas, vents only water vapor, and gives us clean even heat all year long. Carbon dioxide, too, not just water vapor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-smoke-again/961467.md?page=2)