Neighbours feeling dizzy from powerful marijuana smell from nearby house

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Neighbours feeling dizzy from powerful marijuana smell from nearby house

When your neighbours are getting high from the smell of your basement marijuana grow-op, it might be time to slow down business.

The reported smell of pot coming from a home near Ann Arbor, Michigan, is so powerful that some neighbours complain it disturbs their sleep, according to AnnArbor.com.

Residents filed a petition under a zoning bylaw that prevents the 'creation of offensive odours,' according to the report.

Police and town officials said they've smelled the fumes too, which seem to emanate from a pipe sticking out of a basement window.

The attorneys supporting the petition are adamant that the problem is the terrible smell, not the possibility of the alleged grow-op being illegal.

“It’s the noxious odors that’s really the nuisance and that’s the bottom line,” Township Attorney Doug Winters told AnnArbor.com.

[ Related: World’s smelliest man has gone 38 years without bathing ]

It's legal to grow and use medical marijuana in Ann Arbor if a doctor provides written approval for a debilitating medical condition. However,

it isn't legal to grow and sell weed out of a bungalow in that residential area, according to the report.

That hasn't stopped others from growing the drug illegally, such as employees of a nail salon where police seized 70 plants last spring.

The house in question is apparently less covert about its operations, as neighbours complain they can't even open their windows on warm days lest they be besieged by the smell.

The smell made at least one neighbour feel ill, according to the report.

Researchers should investigate the possibility of an increase in the neighbourhood's snack sales and pizza orders.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...l-marijuana-smell-nearby-house-181429327.html
 
Looks like they forgot the carbon fliter on their ventilation!

Disturbed their sleep? I don't even what how

I don't see how a smell could have any effects other than making someone naseaus if they really hate the smell. Dizzy?whaaaat
 
I firmly believe that whatever a man does in his own bungalow is his own business and no one elses.
 
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Yeah me too, even if he is storing dead bodies in freezers and stockpiling bombs lol jks
 
Carbon filter, ozone generators c'mon dude yours neighbors dont wanna smell . My dads grow room smell had an effect on me while i slept as a child didnt know it was pot until i got older
 
It might behoove people not to grow if they can't afford to get a place away from prying/complaining eyes and noses, but hey, that's just common sense talking here.

I am still going to point out that the scent of marijuana is similar to that of a variety of other plants, and that human beings are not actually equipped to tell it apart from other similar smelling plants unlike a dog is. What if you complain my "garden" reeks of weed but is not cannabis plants? What are you going to do? Claim that there's weed there when there isn't, kind of like a crack fiend looking for spare rocks in the carpet? :\ haha that kind of reminds me of how cops look for drugs, they seriously seem like crack fiends looking for that rock they dropped.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
It might behoove people not to grow if they can't afford to get a place away from prying/complaining eyes and noses, but hey, that's just common sense talking here.

I am still going to point out that the scent of marijuana is similar to that of a variety of other plants, and that human beings are not actually equipped to tell it apart from other similar smelling plants unlike a dog is. What if you complain my "garden" reeks of weed but is not cannabis plants? What are you going to do? Claim that there's weed there when there isn't, kind of like a crack fiend looking for spare rocks in the carpet? :\ haha that kind of reminds me of how cops look for drugs, they seriously seem like crack fiends looking for that rock they dropped.
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name one plant that a human could mistake as potent marijuana....
 
yea the odor is strong. but the odor of the unnecessary amount of perfume the writers mom or wife wears to church on sunday gives me headaches and bothers my allergies. but thats ok. god forbid someone smell a smell coming from a fucking house. lets just burn the house down..that will solve the problem

edit: i know revenge is bad but i cant wait till the marijuana lobby has enough power that they could just squash people like this. Like when residents near paper factories complain of the odor and they sue the paper company and end up having to move their homes. fucking pussies. all of them we live in a society of pussies. OMg curse words. omg 32oz sodas. omg the children! fuck. George Carlin where are you?
 
MemphisX3 said:
name one plant that a human could mistake as potent marijuana....
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Yeah sorry Captain, I'm going to have to agree with this -- the smell of marijuana is pretty damn unique, even to the lowly human olfactory receptors. Anyone who has ever identified that smell before, especially if they don't regularly smell it or smoke it, can register even some pretty slight hints of it.

I can think of a lot of plants, especially flowering ones in full bloom, have unique smells that I'd never mistake for a different plant. A rose smells like a fucking rose. I once identified a ditch weed as a tomato plant just by rubbing the leaves and sniffing my fingers. On a warm summer day I can smell the nauseating essence of my fig tree anywhere on my property, and just thank God it's not a mulberry! From an evolutionary perspective, plants attract the right pollinators and seed distributors by having distinctive smells that animals can learn, and by the same token, animals benefit when they can tell the useful plants apart from the poisonous ones by smell.

I think the people who run the house in the main article are idiots. It's one think to resist an unjust law, but to do it in a way that's offensive to the neighborhood doesn't really make your case. I'd say the same thing to some political wingnut who drives around at ungodly hours blaring his rants from a bullhorn on his car. Yes, theoretically rights and fairness have nothing to do with public approval or popularity. But it's a whole lot easier to push something controversial, and get others to stand by you, when you're clearly not offending anyone.
 
MemphisX3 said:
name one plant that a human could mistake as potent marijuana....
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http://www.marijuana.com/threads/a-plant-that-smell-like-bud.255788/

http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/27/sir-your-perfectly-legal-plants-smell-li

Google is your friend ;)

The things that cause marijuana to stink are not THC/CBD itself (marinol isn't going to smell like bud); and is present in other species of plants in the plant kingdom. I don't think you would have to study biology thoroughly to understand that either.
 
These people are totally over-reacting. If someone is chain smoking joints right next to me it can make me feel sick and headachy, but the smell of cannabis plants does not bother me and I really think these people are exaggerating and the problem is likely psychological. Reminds me of the people who moved into a building right next to an airport and then complained that the planes were too loud and petitioned that the airport be moved. Or the people in my building which is right downtown in a major city and are constantly making noise complaints about bars, traffic, and people walking by on the street. Obviously someone unexpectedly growing pot next door is not quite the same issue as something like the cases I just mentioned where anyone with common sense shouldn't feel they have a right to complain and could have predicted the situation beforehend, but I think they're all basically in the same category of having a sense of entitlement and over-exaggerating the problem.

MemphisX3 said:
name one plant that a human could mistake as potent marijuana....
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Police raid elderly couple's garden looking for cannabis
By Duncan Gardham 05 Dec 2008
Police raided the home of an elderly couple looking for a drug factory because a plant in their garden smelled like cannabis.Ivor and Margaret Wiltshire bought the 'moss phlox' four years ago for £2 and it quickly spread through their front and back garden.
But the common garden plant, Latin name Phlox subulata, which grows vivid pink flowers in the spring, gives off a pungent aroma similar to the drug.
The smell was so strong the couple's next-door neighbour was even threatened by a local drug gang who broke into their home and demanded: "Give us the weed man".
Weeks later Ivor, 77, and Margaret, 79, returned home to find the drugs squad had battered down their front door and searched their property.
No drugs were found and a police woman later told them the moss phlox was responsible for the raid after she removed a sample for analysis. [full story]
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