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[SteadyEvo]

Has anyone dealt with this and if so how was the issue resolved if at all? I wanna go knock on the door but also don’t want confrontation. But the shit is annoying and offensive.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Are they downstairs, next door? If they are going out on the patio and smoking and it's still coming in then I don't know what you could do.

Do you know them at all?

 

[Kacho]

Can you elaborate on what the issue is? Are they smoking in their apartment or outside?

 

[Lady Jane]

It's a tricky situation with a lot of elements that you need to let us know of. Is the area your apartment in not that great? What kind of people are they? Are they approachable? Is it a couple, group of friends? Are you in neutral or good standing with them? Do you have kids that you don't want exposed to that? Are they smoking outside or inside?

 

[Tomeru]

Why not join them?

 

[Porcile]

If you can't beat 'em, outsmoke `em.

 

[Little Mac]

We unfortunately live in a time where showing respect and confronting people directly is ill advised. Most people nowadays consider themselves the hero of the story, or the victim, and bringing attention to the issue could be taken as offensive and/or oppressive. I blame social media but I digress. Contact the landlord or property manager, and see if they can resolve the issue.

 

[kanjobazooie]

Let a stray dog into the building and let it piss in front of their door. See how they like it.

 

[ipukespiders]

Has anyone dealt with this and if so how was the issue resolved if at all? I wanna go knock on the door but also don’t want confrontation. But the shit is annoying and offensive.

Buy a home on acreage instead of living around shit heads.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Smokers are why you don’t live in apartments there’s options to live in trailers, or you can contact management to red flag the smoke debris.

 

[Sleepwalker]

If it isnt against the building rules and they are doing it within their own space there's sadly not much you can do other than ask politely.

I would brush up on your buildings rule and if it is indeed against the code (usually smoking indoors is) then report it to avoid direct confrontation.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Has anyone dealt with this and if so how was the issue resolved if at all? I wanna go knock on the door but also don’t want confrontation. But the shit is annoying and offensive.

call the police.

 

[G-Bus]

Leave this on the door step. Vaped marijuana doesn't smell the same or nearly as much and dissipates quickly.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Narc, chill out man.

 

[dr_octagon]

Relax, just take a deep breath and then buy lots of snacks.

 

[belmarduk]

Whats the problem?
The smell is annoying but is there anything else?
I would just let it be.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I hate the smell of that shit. It is just so gross. I’d recommend just going over and asking them to try and help you out. They are probably unaware of the impact to you and won’t mind helping out. Most people are good people

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[BennyBlanco]

Stop being a Karen, OP. Just light a candle or something if the smell bothers you so much.

 

[Deyjandi_Von]

"Dealing with weed smokers in apartments"

I mean, it sounds like they already have their own dealers, but you could always try and muscle in, I guess.

 

[Pagusas]

work with your local politician or lobbyist group to try making weed illegal again. Disgusting habit for sure, I feel for you.

 

[Vestal]

Brah.. Join em

But seriously, what exactly is the problem you are having? Is it the smell?

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Get rich and move out.

 

[Vestal]

I hate the smell of that shit. It is just so gross. I’d recommend just going over and asking them to try and help you out. They are probably unaware of the impact to you and won’t mind helping out. Most people are good people

What this gentleman says.. I try to avoid burning grass around others and even in my own home(because of the smell).. Mostly stick to vapes and edibles. Will burn some grass in my backyard if I feel like it, or with a group of friends.

 

[daveonezero]

Buy them some vape equipment and some extract.

They won’t go back to normal weed.

Few hundred bucks and No more smell.

 

[VN1X]

Has anyone dealt with this and if so how was the issue resolved if at all? I wanna go knock on the door but also don’t want confrontation. But the shit is annoying and offensive.

I feel ya.

Weed smokers are the worst. Gross looking and smelling people. They stink up the entire place!

 

[Musashipan]

Fcking junkies
This shit should be banned

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Knock on thier door and ask if you can get a dooby

 

[StateofMajora]

We unfortunately live in a time where showing respect and confronting people directly is ill advised. Most people nowadays consider themselves the hero of the story, or the victim, and bringing attention to the issue could be taken as offensive and/or oppressive. I blame social media but I digress. Contact the landlord or property manager, and see if they can resolve the issue.

This is the sad truth.

I wouldn't not talk to them out of fear, but not talk to them based on what response i'm 99% sure i'm going to get. And I can't go around breaking people's legs either, so what are you gonna do..

Edit : I mean unless you get a look at them and they're not complete shitheads, then by all means try talking to them.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

I feel ya.

Weed smokers are the worst. Gross looking and smelling people. They stink up the entire place!

Fcking junkies
This shit should be banned

You guys need to chill the fuck out,

shit should be banned, lol, it’s a plant you clown

I am absolutely sympathetic to the smell in the house. I imagine that breaks the tenants agreement. But it’s literally the softest drug on the planet. This anti weed propaganda is hilarious in 2022, you guys sound like concerned mothers that your kids are going to become heroin addicts after smoking a joint.

 

[Davey Cakes]

When I lived in an apartment, I vaped or used edibles as a way or showing more courtesy. Living at home again, I usually smoke it, but still use my portable vapes sometimes. It's just healthier to do it that way.

Don't be an anti-weed rube though. There are far worse things that people could be doing than just chilling out with some herb. Would you rather them be getting drunk and loud instead?

 

[StateofMajora]

You guys need to chill the fuck out,

shit should be banned, lol, it’s a plant you clown

Doesn't mean it doesn't smell like shit and that others should have to put up with the smell.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Doesn't mean it doesn't smell like shit and that others should have to put up with the smell.

I agree with that, I edited my post.

 

[jshackles]

Weed? lol

Homie, my neighbors on both sides of me cook meth. They work for the cartels, so confrontation will lead to physical violence. The advice I'd give you is to pick your battles.

 

[Davey Cakes]

Buy them some vape equipment and some extract.

They won’t go back to normal weed.

Few hundred bucks and No more smell.

Yeah, do the passive aggressive thing. Leave an ad under their door for an Arizer Solo/Extreme Q.

 

[StateofMajora]

Weed? lol

Homie, my neighbors on both sides of me cook meth. They work for the cartels, so confrontation will lead to physical violence. The advice I'd give you is to pick your battles.

Damn bro I thought you lived in a good area. ...Move? lol

 

[Mistake]

Fight back

 

[jshackles]

Damn bro I thought you lived in a good area. ...Move? lol

I live in such a good area that meth is legal here (just not to produce).

Might have to eventually move. For now, it's like... "eh, if you don't mess with me, I won't mess with you".

 

[bender]

Weed? lol

Homie, my neighbors on both sides of me cook meth. They work for the cartels, so confrontation will lead to physical violence. The advice I'd give you is to pick your battles.

You shouldn't give advice if you can't even beat the shit out of a few tweakers.

 

[VN1X]

You guys need to chill the fuck out,

shit should be banned, lol, it’s a plant you clown

I am absolutely sympathetic to the smell in the house. I imagine that breaks the tenants agreement. But it’s literally the softest drug on the planet. This anti weed propaganda is hilarious in 2022, you guys sound like concerned mothers that your kids are going to become heroin addicts after smoking a joint.

There's a reason they call it the devil's grass. You should all be in prison!

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

you really needed a thread for this? Jesus Christ go talk to them.

 

[PapaEmeritus]

I am not saying to do this, this worked for me though.
We girlfriend now wife and I lived in an apartment, there was a terrible tenant who would let their dog pee in the hallway, and they had police often for domestic abuse. They finally got evicted, which was a huge sigh of relief. In their place two college kids, who had friends over all the time, especially weekends. I'm talking like 15 people crammed into a 2 bedroom apartment
They would smoke weed, which I don't normally care about, but 15-20 people ripping it for hours would start to get very obnoxious I've had my party days so I get it. Include the noise on a Sunday night at 11 when we had to get up at 530 am on Monday to work was getting ridiculous
My first complaint to the landlord was the noise, that went on deaf ears, "yeah we'll look into it" a few weeks went by and there were more people jammed in there.
This time I brought up the noise and the amount of weed smoke in the common hallway and out apartment had a door in the master that led to a fir escape hallway, every apartment had this, so trying to sleep was also filled with the overwhelming smell of weed, and a scent I have no idea why makes me go into Hulk mode, patchouli, I fuckin hate it.
Landlord said well maybe they have a medicinal need, I look at her in the face, and said I know you don't fucking believe that line, right. She didn't say anything else
One particular Sunday, they left the apartment, they were up almost all of Saturday night, and on Sunday when they left, they left a yippy dog barking for hours, and I mean hours. So we were annoyed from that too.
They come home stumbling in the hallway Sunday evening, friends come over and the party begins, thump thump thump, yelling, weed so overwhelming it was going through our apartment.
I am an Irish hothead, I will fully admit to that.
I looked at my girlfriend in the eyes, she knew something was up. I got up opened our door insanely fast so it slammed the wall, and punded the fuck out of their door, fully prepared to get into it, the music died off, and a dude with a fuckin shag cut opens the door and goes "uh what's up?". That is when I fucking laid into them, looking and scanning across the room meeting as many eyes as I could. I mean really laid into them.
No one said anything back, not a word. I stepped into the door way and slammed their door closed and went back to my apartment. The music came back on at a fraction of what it was, and the weed smoke took a while to die down, BUT they started to go out onto their balcony to smoke, no more in the apartment.
So the moral of the story is, maybe don't be a hot head, but bring it up, and maybe they will understand where you're coming from and change up some habits, or they'll get worse and you'll have to deal or have to move
Bottom line, I would live in a car before I go back to an apartment in my life

 

[Banjo64]

How is it offensive?

 

[PapaEmeritus]

How is it offensive?

If you don't smoke weed it can be offensive. But as in my story, in large quantities.

 

[VN1X]

Report them to the police. Get them evicted.

 

[6502]

Get out of there. There is little chance of any confrontation ending well.

 

[Rest]

Are they downstairs, next door? If they are going out on the patio and smoking and it's still coming in then I don't know what you could do.

Do you know them at all?

I used to have neighbors that smoked. Apparently our apartments had shared ventilation.

 

[Peter303]

Has anyone dealt with this and if so how was the issue resolved if at all? I wanna go knock on the door but also don’t want confrontation. But the shit is annoying and offensive.

I dealt with it by putting a polite note at the entrance to our communal area explaining that the smell was getting into other apartments and asking if the person who was smoking could do something about keeping the smell in their apartment. I knew who the smoker was but kept it anonymous and non targeted so if I needed to escalate it would be easier.
Next day the note was gone and I the smell of weed never returned.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Wait until they get the munchies. You can then play the friendly neighbor, knock on the door and offer them some tasty junk food, that you've laced with arsenic and ricin. Go back to your apartment, play some video games and wait until the next day and your neighbors should be either dead or seriously poisoned and hospitalized.

 

[The Fartist]

Me when I smell weed:

I don't smoke weed anymore but I love the smell