Moved three times to get away from Weed fumes, and now it's happening again

SameOldRoundabout

OP I’m sorry you’re struggling with it. In my old house the neighbours would smoke it in their bedroom and it would come straight through my walls. We blocked up all the fireplaces but still it came, it really was so strong it was like they were inside my house. The worst bit was the smell was somehow trapped between the wall and the tongue and groove in my sons room and the stench in the lower bunk was horrendous. It may not annoy some people but I find the smell abhorrent and as a non smoker do not want my kids around secondhand weed smoke on a regular basis! We never found a solution as nothing we did worked. We have now moved (not for that reason) and it’s lovely to not smell it, although the inside of the kids wardrobes have retained the smell!). You simply can’t guarantee no neighbours will smoke it sadly, but I do wish you luck. 

sgun

Davesnave said:

GDB2222 said:

I did vaguely think how nice it would be to have a house boat as a holiday home in the summer. 

The trouble is, one ends up caring for its bottom in winter every few years.

People shouldn't imagine the countryside is devoid of irritants in the atmosphere. Contract farming means the use of chemical sprays is rife and at this time of year pollen is giving some people a hard time. Oh, don't forget the muck-spreading, which has just finished, and the silage stink. Lovely!

I live very rural, not much around here but me and the farms. Boy, do those farmers/hands smoke a lot of weed! There is one in particular who closes up his tractorwindows and just smokes all day, you can see him pottering along, smoke billowing inside the cab, the wafts of weed following him wherever he goes. And the smell drifts along the lanes and into our garden. I don't mind, its quite amusing really, all my farmer friends used to do that when we were teenagers so I was expecting it, its quite boring just being in a tractor all day. So don't assume the countryside is only full of poo smells.

sgun

sgun said:

Davesnave said:

GDB2222 said:

I did vaguely think how nice it would be to have a house boat as a holiday home in the summer. 

The trouble is, one ends up caring for its bottom in winter every few years.

People shouldn't imagine the countryside is devoid of irritants in the atmosphere. Contract farming means the use of chemical sprays is rife and at this time of year pollen is giving some people a hard time. Oh, don't forget the muck-spreading, which has just finished, and the silage stink. Lovely!

I live very rural, not much around here but me and the farms. Boy, do those farmers/hands smoke a lot of weed! There is one in particular who closes up his tractorwindows and just smokes all day, you can see him pottering along, smoke billowing inside the cab, the wafts of weed following him wherever he goes. And the smell drifts along the lanes and into our garden. I don't mind, its quite amusing really, all my farmer friends used to do that when we were teenagers so I was expecting it, its quite boring just being in a tractor all day. So don't assume the countryside is only full of poo smells.

And as Davesnave says, the chemicals can be really bad. I moved away from arable to a pastoral setting as the constant spraying of crops, even on really windy days was unpleasant (and killed my hens one year).

Davesnave

Yes, just as in town, people need to learn how to 'read' the landscape around the place they choose in the country. Most of the land around me is reasonably benign, with just sheep, cattle, forestry and game rearing, but there's a finger of good quality land which gets the full, high-intensity treatment for arable.  Nowadays, that means huge machines, clanking about for days, and often well into the night as well. Thankfully, we're a few fields away from that, but we see it going on in the distance.

GDB2222

We used to live in a house with a field at the bottom where, I swear, the farmer grew hayfever!

Johndole25

Jackmydad said:

Norman_Castle said:

OP, is it the smell of it being smoked that is the problem? I don't really notice it being smoked but the smell of it in a deal or when growing is really strong to the extent of it irritating me enough to want to leave the area. A flat partially below mine grows with the smell coming through the floor. I've sealed the gaps between the skirting and floor which has stopped the smell. Could draft proofing your home work? A pyromaniac neighbour regularly has fires, shutting the windows stops the smell in my home.

I've seen people complain about the smell of smoke, both legal and illegal a few times on here and elsewhere.
Your's would seem to be the answer.
Stop the smell getting in rather than trying to get away from it.
I'm lucky enough to live in a rural place, but I smell people walking past in the lane smoking cigarettes. Can be surprisingly strong sometimes. Someone else has really stinking fires sometimes, and as Davesnave says above there are various agricultural smells including occasional spray, which I dislike a lot more than I would weed smoke.
We all have to live in the world, and moving away every time something annoys us, knowing that the same problem will most likely turn up at the new place would seem to me to be a poor option.

I do try to stop it coming in but thats a band aid to an infected wound. Sometimes being the key. I wouldn't have fallen ill if it weren't constant, unrelenting fumes for over 6 years. Also it isn't just annoying, it's driven me to actual mental illness.

The issue with Cannabis is that the people smoking it are often not wanting to achieve much (yes this is a generalisation but that's often they are getting high so frequently) and they are extremely persistent and usually very much addicted. Anyone can have a bad reaction to a specific drug, we all have different enzymatic reactions. Some people might have a really !!!!!! reaction to aspirin, but you don't have people smoking it and releasing into the air. I would have no problem with a farmer occasional passing and getting a whiff of it, this isn't what I mean by affective. Hell if it were just the weekends, then go ahead, but it's working hours. I can't have clients in my flat, even if I wasn't seriously ill. Its the sheer volume. It's more of rant about how inconsiderate Drug users can be to be honest, especially one's in my previous place that were given letters by the landlords etc and still carried on knowing they were harming others. 

To the person suggesting "spraying over" the weed fumes, I know you probably don't know better and I'm not being rude so don't take it that way, but that is a bad idea. My previous Druggies used to do that after people were complain about not getting clean air. They don't "clean" the air they simply make it far worse. Now I have weed fumes and awful cheap cleaning spray mixed together. I want fresh air. In fact those thing should be outright banned. They are bad for the environment and do nothing to magically remove smells. 

I personally want to study and work as hard as a can, BADLY. I wake up an have a cold shower (Wim HOF), I eat a perfect lean breakfast of oats, fruit and nuts, take curcumin (95% curciminoids). I drink multiple cups of healthy tea a day. I don't drink or smoke. I exercise daily. I go to bed with no blue light...yet Cannabis fumes ruin it all.

I'm going to go and speak to these people and let them know. I didn't want to get involved but enough is enough. 
Even tempted to go and buy them a vaporiser so the it doesn't remain active in the air and also wouldn't smell. 

RelievedSheff

Perhaps spending your time obsessing about an alternative subject might help you.

-taff

What do you expect to gain from speaking to them All you are doing is creating another, potentially bigger problem. If people smoke weed, then they smoke weed, they're not likely to stop because one person has an aversion to it. You need to find ways to live with it, because the chances are you'll always be bumping into people who smoke it unless you move to an uninhabited island.

householder7

You have my entire sympathy and fwiw although I accept that no-one can fix this for you I don't accept that it's unreasonable or obsessive to want to solve a problem, and that to lump it is your only option. We're only here once & nobody should have their life made miserable by others. I've moved many times, in very ordinary areas, without a problem, now in a place with a high proportion of elderly people for example, so yes, lucky me maybe but I don't really know why anyone would suggest that it's near impossible to avoid this. All the best with whatever you decide to do, and don't get yourself into a bad situation by tackling the offending people.