The smell of cannabis

[lizardbrain]

jan8p said:

Do Georgia and Spain love it so much they legalised it twice?

I stripped out a wiki article, possible there is a bunch of steps mixed up in there

Spain for instance

2015 decriminalized cannabis cultivation up to 10 cannabis plants for personal use.
2017, Catalonia legalised the cultivation, consumption and distribution of cannabis for members of designated cannabis clubs

Edited by lizardbrain on Monday 24th June 17:42

[dukeboy749r]

In Cleveland (and other US cities I have been regularly to recently) the overpowering smell of weed is bordering on unbearable at times.

What is most disconcerting is it coming from slowly moving cars.

Nice and probably not so safe.

[g3org3y]

Ken_Code said:

g3org3y said:

I used to commute out of London on the A13 and this was noted every morning.

Evidently plenty of people blazing on the way to work at 630-700 while driving. Crazy.

I used to motorbike in and out of the city on the A13 and I too was amazed at how frequently at that time people were smoking it. I can’t imagine sitting in your car or work van at six thirty in the morning and deciding that what you need right now is a joint.

Indeed.

If I was having a joint, I'd be hitting the sofa with some Pringles and some Haribo not driving to work!

[Brother D]

To me it smells like walking into a small bathroom after a curry-eating-tramp has finally emptied his fetid bowels. It's strange to me that people even like the smell. When driving on the highways I cannot tell if an actual skunk has been run over, or simply driven past someone smoking. I guess that's where it gets it name.

[ApOrbital]

Brother D said:

To me it smells like walking into a small bathroom after a curry-eating-tramp has finally emptied his fetid bowels. It's strange to me that people even like the smell. When driving on the highways I cannot tell if an actual skunk has been run over, or simply driven past someone smoking. I guess that's where it gets it name.

Dude Yeah.

[lizardbrain]

Smell connects directly to the limbic system, which associates memory and emotion. Weed is objectively less physically irritating to the nose, vs alcohol. So if you have this kind of visceral reaction, perhaps you were molested by a hippy as a kid or something?

[Rich Boy Spanner]

lizardbrain said:

Smell connects directly to the limbic system, which associates memory and emotion. Weed is objectively less physically irritating to the nose, vs alcohol. So if you have this kind of visceral reaction, perhaps you were molested by a hippy as a kid or something?

That's a really strange response. So much to unpack there.

[oddball1313]

It’s smells rank, not quite as bad as cigarette
smoke but both smell absolutely vile to me. How I used to smoke a few Marlboro lights when i was 20 something on a Friday night i’ll never know. Smoked weed half a dozen times during that period, never got the appeal

[BunkMoreland]

Never partaken. Cant stand it. Though can tolerate cigarette to a point (but I'd never date a user of either)

Partly cause its a horrible smell, which by its nature makes it anti social (if you want to do it, up to you, but don't inflict the smell on anyone else) and partly because it conjures up memories of waster friends of various South London locations from 25+ish years ago. No one I know whose smoked it for more than a year or so in their teens as a phase is a mensa candidate.

Obviously this is anecdotal. Plenty of my former friends who went for decades smoking regularly, all over time, became more frequent users. Once a week, became a weekend, became during the week "to get over a st day at work" Every single one of them tried harder stuff. So it irritates when the hippies say its not a gateway. Most often Coke, sometmes Billy or pills. And all of them seem to have general issues around concentration and strangely memory loss to a lesser or greater extent. And none of them have ever really excelled at their jobs. Wasted their various talents. A friend was on the road to a good job in IT in the late 90s, but spent more and more time "chilled out" and eventually last I saw was working in a shoe shop. c'est la vie

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

These people and their houses must absolutely reek of the stuff.

Yep, and their cars and their clothes. Nose blindness is a thing

Rich Boy Spanner said:

it is 'the stench of failure'.

Funny that this pretty apt phrase has irritated so many of the regulars It tallies with my experience. People hate to be pulled up on their flaws.

J4CKO said:

There seems to be a class of lad these days and all they seem to do is weed, Xbox/PS5 and self abuse.

Thats the point though. Without getting all conspiracy theory. And going on a tangenet

These lads are not going to cause trouble, they aren't going to protest or riot or demand changes. These activities are encouraged as a "sedated" low energy group of young men are easier to control societally.

Unknown said:

"they sedate their numb existence with an endless stream of alcohol, drugs, porn, TV, video games"

[croyde]

popeyewhite said:

I used to love the smell of black resin only...bush just smelt like a forest fire lol.

Years later it's all a bit sweet and sickly.

I used to smoke when one burnt, then crumbled the resin.

These days the stuff stinks, makes me feel sick, and the fact that loads think it's ok to smoke that crap when driving. Hanging is not good enough

[jdw100]

Kind of associate with the lazy and losers.

Based on experiences in my 20s-40s of people I know.

Addictive - friends could not stop smoking it even though going through several rounds of self funded IVF.

Any smoking is bad for you, obviously.

Have a mate who is a consultant in hospital regularly dealing with psychosis issues; becoming a much bigger issue than 10 years ago.

Like any smoking/vaping - forcing your smell on other people is quite selfish.

Don’t know if it has same effect as second hand smoking if at home? Second hand smoke did for both of my grandmothers.

[Brother D]

lizardbrain said:

Smell connects directly to the limbic system, which associates memory and emotion. Weed is objectively less physically irritating to the nose, vs alcohol. So if you have this kind of visceral reaction, perhaps you were molested by a hippy as a kid or something?

I think the lady doth protest too much. One odor actually smells of unwashed ass, and is a similar smelling compound to that ejected from the anal glands used used by a small mammal to repell attackers.


The other is a base for perfume and aftershave.


But to clarify - you think weed smelling hippies are paedophiles? As marketing strategies go, that's not a great tag line for promoting or associating the use/smell of cannabis.

Edited by Brother D on Tuesday 25th June 04:46

[CrgT16]

Never smoked and never will… not needed.

The stench is awful and my perception is also the users tend to be losers but that’s probably unfair.

I know cannabis is considered a light drug and users probably feel it should be legal. I don’t think so, it’s production would never be regulated properly and it affects many people’s lives in a bad way. At point of sale the use is probably unaware of the criminal underground layer of it. It’s awful. I see drug users as criminal gang enablers. I don’t support it.

Ok there is exploitation everywhere like fast fashion, etc but the criminal activity around drugs is off the scale causing serious violence and destruction to many many lives and vulnerable people. Drug users are enabling all of that… not that conscience would ever play a part in anyone’s decisions but there should be a degree of awareness I think.

[CrgT16]

Never smoked and never will… not needed.

The stench is awful and my perception is also the users tend to be losers but that’s probably unfair.

I know cannabis is considered a light drug and users probably feel it should be legal. I don’t think so, it’s production would never be regulated properly and it affects many people’s lives in a bad way. At point of sale the use is probably unaware of the criminal underground layer of it. It’s awful. I see drug users as criminal gang enablers. I don’t support it.

Ok there is exploitation everywhere like fast fashion, etc but the criminal activity around drugs is off the scale causing serious violence and destruction to many many lives and vulnerable people. Drug users are enabling all of that… not that conscience would ever play a part in anyone’s decisions but there should be a degree of awareness I think.

[rufmeister]

I play football 3 times a week at Power League, and more or less every ti,e there’s someone smoking weed near the pitches, drives me mad, but it’s accepted these days that people can do what they like.

[DannyScene]

I like the smell of it and have no issues with people smoking it in their own homes, it sometimes smells quite pleasant

My new next door neighbour smokes 'solid' apparently and that stuff smells revolting

[lizardbrain]

CrgT16 said:

Never smoked and never will… not needed.

The stench is awful and my perception is also the users tend to be losers but that’s probably unfair.

I know cannabis is considered a light drug and users probably feel it should be legal. I don’t think so, it’s production would never be regulated properly and it affects many people’s lives in a bad way. At point of sale the use is probably unaware of the criminal underground layer of it. It’s awful. I see drug users as criminal gang enablers. I don’t support it.

Ok there is exploitation everywhere like fast fashion, etc but the criminal activity around drugs is off the scale causing serious violence and destruction to many many lives and vulnerable people. Drug users are enabling all of that… not that conscience would ever play a part in anyone’s decisions but there should be a degree of awareness I think.

Is your argument that it can't be perfectly regulated so it shouldn't be regulated at all? Presumably criminality will decrease in rough proportion to how well regulated the drug is? If production and distribution are subject to the same rules and regulations as alcohol, i can't see how it could be otherwise.

UK is currently the largest grower of legal cannabis in the world, so there is a decent starting point here to hit the ground running. I currently buy it online and the service is amazon level in every respect. Email marketing, fast customer service, next day dispatch. I've never had an intercepted delivery which suggests to me it's defacto decriminlised already. But who knows whats going on behind the point of sale at present. Regulation can surely help here.

Edited by lizardbrain on Tuesday 25th June 10:15

[Hants PHer]

I absolutely loathe the smell, just as I do with tobacco. Smoking cannabis and/or tobacco is a foul, disgusting habit and those who think it OK to inflict their choice on others (you just can't escape the smell) are selfish fools, to put it politely.

As others have pointed out, the stench of this stuff (weed, not tobacco) that you pick up in traffic is alarming. Why is it that we have developed a very low tolerance of drink driving, but drug driving is so prevalent?

[vikingaero]

Can't stand the smell. It seems to be more common for people to smoke a joint when walking on the streets - they always look shifty and shady when doing so. I do think it should be decriminalised, but on the caveat that the penalty whilst caught with some in your system whilst driving is incredibly harsh.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Wheel Turned Out said:

Rich Boy Spanner said:

It stinks and so do the paranoid losers that use it, or as somebody else wrote, it is 'the stench of failure'.

Judgmental drivel.

Sorry you are wrong.

When I see someone smoking it, I don't care if you earn DSA or £80,000 a year. Much like users of coke and Heroin on here. You say you are control of it but if its regular it's in control of you.