Cannabis smoking

MaggieTulliver

Would you be equally upset if they were just smoking ordinary tobacco OP? Because if it’s just the fact that it’s weed that you don’t like, then I think you’re being unreasonable.

How ridiculous. Ordinary tobacco is legal, cannabis is illegal.

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I always smoked weed with a bong.

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Sorry BlueBelle, I realise your point now.

Of course Jaxjacky I realise that I was just trying to put it in perspective as a lot of people connect drugs with young people only

Yes its a sign of the times Im afraid and I feel sorry for Scentia. Its a horrible smell and I can smell it when im out and about a lot lately. I am surprised at how many people do use it.

BlueBelle loads of people, middle aged and upwards use cannabis the hipsters of previous years! Cocaine is rife in all ages too.

I recently interviewed a homeless man alongside the local authority homelessness worker. When she asked him if he uses any drugs he very confidently and unhesitatingly said, “No”. The LA worker started to ask the next question, but I interrupted and said, “Do you not smoke cannabis or use cocaine (our local ‘drugs of choice’)?” To which he replied, “Yes, but only like normal people do.” It turned out that he was a daily user of cannabis and a weekend user of cocaine, but he didn’t even regard this as ‘drug use’.

I ve never used it and don’t condone it in any way, I hate drugs, but it’s around us all in vast amounts, and once the genie is out the bottle you can’t put it back it may well be Illegal but nothing is done about it
When I m working on my allotment the smell of cannabis is so strong yet nearly all the allotments are middle to. older aged people ( mostly men but a few ladies) I don’t know who is smoking it but it’s certainly wafting around heavily

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This is quite a coincidence, my neighbour of 13yrs moved out about 4 weeks ago. My new neighbours moved in 2 weeks ago. A young couple in there early 30s with a little boy around 3yrs old also a young dog. We said Hello! and we made small talk and all seemed ideal. A week later at 11pm at night, he started shouting like a mad man swearing and banging stuff around, this went on for over an hour, eventually it went calm again. With these hot summer evenings they were sitting in the garden, as was I. He started shouting and bottles were clinking and he was obviously drunk. Eventually I had to go indoors it was so unpleasant. About midnight I was woken by a bright light flashing in my bedroom. I got out of bed to see what was happening and could see an ambulance outside next doors house. Then the guy from next door was being helped into the ambulance, he was hopping. I assumed he had had a bad fall. Not surprising if he was drunk. A few evenings later, while I sat watching TV I suddenly realised my house smelled of smoke, I was a bit concerned and went around checking all the electric plugs etc. It was so bad a started to cough and kept coughing. I was so worried I have never been a smoker and this didn't smell like normal cigarette smoke. I opened my back door hoping to clear the smell. I could smell it out the back in the garden and then realised it must be something like Cannabis. I have never smelt Cannabis, but guessed it was something of that sort. Sometime later it cleared. I mentioned this to a friend and she and her husband agreed this is what it probably was. It seems the police are not interested in this situation as there are thousands of people smoking this in there homes all the time and they can't do anything about it. I am 81, a widow ,with no family for hundreds of miles, and I'm told this is the times we are living in, get used to it. What a wonderful society Britain has become. A sweet little 3yr old is growing up in that household, what sort of example are his parents. These are private houses a nice neighbourhood, and this couple are smart and sophisticated on appearance. I guess I am old fashioned and this is the new world.

En garde MissC!!!

Maybe gender identification at the start of each contribution would clarify for each post whether the poster was male or female. However I think that the majority of contributors would think this unnecessary and a waste of time.
I don’t see anyone starting a post with “as a heterosexual woman I think…..” so why on earth is the fact that I have a female sounding username, I have a wife make it so impossible for readers to understand that I am female. I’m certainly not going to start my posts with “as a lesbian grandmother…..”
maybe this is a topic for a new thread sometime.
Do enjoy crossing swords GSM.

Absolutely agree Callistemon. I’ve read them (and crossed swords with her!) so I knew but not everyone would (as with the poster up thread) and I don’t think a username is a reliable guide to whether a poster is male or female, as MissC thinks.

Germanshepherdsmum

*MissC*, not surprising someone gets confused when you refer to yourself as having been ‘a youth’, which infers a young man, and also refer to your ‘wife’. Perfectly understandable.

It was an easy assumption to make if a poster has not read any of MissChatelaine's posts previously.

MissC, we all know perfectly well what ‘one’s youth’ is, as you describe. References to ‘the youth of today’ or ‘youth offending service’ encompass young males and females. But ‘a youth’ is a young male.

Germanshepherdsmum

*MissC*, not surprising someone gets confused when you refer to yourself as having been ‘a youth’, which infers a young man, and also refer to your ‘wife’. Perfectly understandable.

Definition of youth
1a : the time of life when one is young
especially : the period between childhood and maturity
b : the early period of existence, growth, or development

I have never really considered that “youth” was exclusive to young males. The youth offending service deals with both male and female offenders.

I don’t really feel that I should have to explain in plain language about my sexuality whenever I refer to my “wife” and I don’t think that my username leaves much doubt as to my being female.

Apologies, I thought it was an autocorrect issue….

MissChateline : I did not refer to you in my post if you look again I put the name COSSY so that is who I was addressing.
I did not mention you or any thing to suggest that you wanted drugs decriminalized, and yes we all want every city to be free of dealers although I am most certain that will never happen
as the gains for the top man of the trade are too lucrative and the top man will have people from all walks of life getting back-handers out of his purse that's the way it is.

MissC, not surprising someone gets confused when you refer to yourself as having been ‘a youth’, which infers a young man, and also refer to your ‘wife’. Perfectly understandable.

3nanny6….nowhere have I said that all drugs should be decriminalised. In fact when I was working with users of heroin and other class A drugs my mission in life was to rid the city of every drug dealer . I totally hate the stuff and the damage it can do. And believe me there were plenty of dealers and dealing on the streets was open and visible. May I assure you that I am also fully aware of the abuse of young girls. Life in the criminal justice system in this northern city at the time of the Rochdale grooming abuse and the Bradford riots was not pleasant.

I worked for several years on what used to be the old DTTO’s (drug treatment and testing orders) and was on the small team that set the Order in my city up when it was first introduced. I have Written hundreds of court reports regarding the progress on the Order, supervised drug users in the community and been involved in sentencing options for dealers etc. I think I know what I am talking about.
What I am saying is that from my experience all smokers of weed are not unreasonable or lazy .

Cossy I thought I would take a look at this thread as I found it interesting. Also I posted earlier and I came across your post
shouting me down and saying how you disagreed with me.

You made a claim that you worked with people with substance abuse/addictions and your post suggested how you think the whole spectrum of drugs should be decriminalised.

All I said in my post was that the OPs daughter should ask the neighbours to go further up the garden as it was unacceptable for the smoke to be going into the child's bedroom. Certainly it is unacceptable and it would be unacceptable to me.

Now my turn about the work I have done with substance abusers and some of my experiences. Firstly I will tell you about young teenage girls being introduced to cannabis by older men and then being plyed with alcohol taken to dodgy B@Bs and GANG RAPED! sounds nasty doesn't it? I did not want to talk of things like that but it is a scenario that has happened time and time again. Liberal people like yourself want to turn around and say legalize cannabis and heroin etc,
and it will clean up the drugs problem well sorry you are talking out of your a**e.
Even cannabis has detrimental effects on many young people
and leads them onto severe mental health issues some are even diagnosed with schizophrenia because of it they are the ones that have become heavily addicted to skunk which is the worst type . Many dealers even lace the skunk with small amount of crack to draw these people in even further until they are stealing and robbing just to buy the stuff.
I am going to leave my post here but I could write a million words about what I know and my experiences with drug /addiction users, it would never be enough because drugs are not glamorous and they do not discriminate anyone who gets caught up in even the smallest addiction can find themselves on the road to hell.

So Cossy do not tell me how good you are because you sound bloody stupid.

Which is slightly different from what was said, which was It has all sorts of negative effects, not least of which is making users both unreasonable and lazy. I doubt the person who wrote that meant all users.

But whatever. Speak to people however you like. I’ve got Olympics to watch.

@maggiemaybe
Would you really start a conversation with someone you’ve met for the first time with Utter garbage?

That’s actually a polite version of what I might say to a real human being if they came out with such a ridiculous statement as “all dope smokers are lazy and unreasonable”.