So tired smelling pot everywhere!!!

[John VN]

Interesting???? Just asked DW and she said she didn't smell a skunk.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Are you in the city? I can say I have never experienced that in Western Mass where I live, but then again we are pretty rural. While it may be legal, you can still be busted for DUI in a flash if your car is rolling off smoke like some Cheech and Chong ... same as with an open container of alcohol

In the city and very close proximity to the city, can't say it happens anywhere else.

I don't know if it is just they do it so much it is like the world's worst air fresh freshener or because, like with cigarettes, as that oil ages on fabric it gets a certain putrid smell that just gets so very big and then smoking fresh on top of it is quite the bouquet. I used to love smoking cigarettes and back then it was such a sweet smell to me, once I quit smoking though my nose totally changed and I could smell the staleness when smoke sits on a thing and ages. It wasn't a smell I could smell when I smoked, it just isn't the same to smokers as non smokers

That reminds me, the way it smells on winter coats when it gets baked in and fills up a room like Pigpen from Charlie Brown where I can't even stand downwind or in the same grocery aisle, just lovely.

Public service message, people, if you smoke whatever by all means enjoy life as you do, but please consider washing your cloth or dry cleaning your leather and down coats from time to time because NOSEBLIND is a thing, especially if you are dating or trying to date. Trust me Febreze, AXE & perfume will not help you. The Snoop and Martha schtick that worked with BIC should get on this for Tide.

 

[Scouter]

I'm sure it does. I don't think a lot of people care. A lot of jobs only test when they hire someone, and never again.

My organization has stopped drug testing! Now we get all kinds of people who think it's OK to smoke pot on their breaks or lunch, which it isn't, and I could smell them coming in the building. We have so many issues now with people not doing their jobs correctly and I have no doubt much of it is because they're smoking pot and then not caring about how they perform their job. Such a terrible thing. An insult to our institution, which is nationwide but I cannot state the job.

 

[Scouter]

A question here from an oldie here....What is the value, or reason, to 'get high'?

Even though I don't currently smoke it, in my 30's during a really bad depression I was going through, a guy I was dating suggested it. It did give me times of not feeling like I wanted to cry all day. That's was almost 30 years ago. I do see benefits for people but respect where you do it. And not everyone else wants to smell it.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

The 80s were wild…

We had the worst hair

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Pot is legal here and we have some of the toughest smoking laws, if you can’t smoke a cigarette somewhere, you can’t smoke pot either. Is it different elsewhere? I’m all for the legalization, I like my wine but think pot has less issues than alcohol. People are complaining about the smell, did they not grow up with smoking in the house, in the car, in theaters, banks, offices, grocery stores, airplanes, trains, schools, restaurants?

I know people who still smoke and ones who have smoked weed. I dislike how prevalent it is in Vegas same as what smoking was. It just smells.

I have no moral objection to it, I do wish my state would allow medical usage of it, but no I don't want to be surrounded by it because it stinks, It gives me a headache pretty quick. Cigarette smoke irritates my allergies.

Granted you can generally smell alcohol on someone's breath if they drank very recently or to excess (or unfortunately if they threw up) but when is the last time you smelled alcohol on someone's clothes just by them drinking? I love my sister-in-law but good gravy I cannot sit next to her when she comes back in from smoking (cigarettes though she did vape for a while). Weed is a lot like that. It clings to your clothes and furniture and hair so you carry it around you when you're out and about. And it I kid you not permeates the air. Crazy how we were driving down several years back in CO on the highway in the late winter (so that's probably a good amount why) and we all could smell it coming through the car vents of the rental car.

To me comparing it to wine or other alcohol is just missing the point at least when it comes to the smell.

 

[ronandannette]

I switched to a vape because I live in a smoke free building. Canada has been weed friendly since 2018 and, at least where I live, people are not just walking down the street or waiting for the bus and blazing up. Does it happen, sure, but it’s definitely not the regular.


I said a few pages back that if you (general) think weed smells like skunk, people are smoking cheap *** weed.

No, I don't really think that's an issue either, but it is routine to smell it in all public designated smoking areas. As a non-cigarette-smoker, you probably don't spend a lot of time in places like that. As far as rule-flaunting goes, it's far and away the vapers that are most often guilty there. Never mind what they're vaping; it's only legal in public in designated smoking areas but the vapers gotta vape...

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

If anything, I find that most people vape in my area. I see people vaping in parking lots, the mall and even at Universal (which, yes is not allowed but I've seen multiple people vaping in ride queues).

I feel like vaping has lost some of its "coolness" for a while it was everywhere and by a lot of different types of people some whom never smoked a day in their lives but took up vaping. But that has really subsided to my observation. I still see it just not as much as in the years past.

 

[Suger Mag]

I find it interesting how sensitive some people are to certain scents or odors. I have a friend... cigarette smoker.... but cannot stand perfume or scented detergents etc. Never could understand that.

I live in a rural agriculture area, so smells are part and parcel of the season... lilacs.... the 'honey wagon' spreading on the fields... the shad run on the Connecticut River.... hoooooeee those are some rank air days after spawning when many die and wash up on the shores. Now the smell of cannabis growlng is another one that perfumes the season in late sept-October.

As an ex cigarette smoker I hate the smell now. But cigars remind me of my father so that is acceptable. Cannabis does not bother me, and I agree that not all pot smells' the same.

 

[Smugpugmug]

I feel like vaping has lost some of its "coolness" for a while it was everywhere and by a lot of different types of people some whom never smoked a day in their lives but took up vaping. But that has really subsided to my observation. I still see it just not as much as in the years past.

Vaping is huge where I live. I see more people vaping than smoking cigarettes. One of my coworkers openly vapes on video calls, including ones in front of the head of the company and he seems cool with it (I work at a company with 20 employees max). Also like I noted in the post you quoted I see people vaping at Universal every time I go. Last time I was there a dude was vaping in the indoors portion of the Velocicoaster queue which is just wonderful

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

At least around here it hasn’t.

When it was illegal people generally didn’t have it with them. Now it’s legal to possess people are more likely to have it and pull it out in illegal places.

And the police departments over here on this side at least several of them have said explicitly they are not going to do much over here from people going over to MO and then back to KS. I mean they'll still do normal enforcement (whatever level that was) but they knew that more KS residents would now go over to MO to get it so the legalization there has and will impact us over here in terms of how often we'll probably be around it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Vaping is huge where I live. I see more people vaping than smoking cigarettes. One of my coworkers openly vapes on video calls, including ones in front of the head of the company and he seems cool with it (I work at a company with 20 employees max). Also like I noted in the post you quoted I see people vaping at Universal every time I go. Last time I was there a dude was vaping in the indoors portion of the Velicocoaster queue which is just wonderful

Yeah I do see people sneak vapes in places they shouldn't. Early this year when we were in Puerto Rico doing the Bacardi tour on the train/cart I can't remember what it was but it's a transportation they use to take you to the several buildings there and you were told no smoking allowed including vaping and the girl in front of us celebrating her birthday was still using her vape but all secret like until she was called out twice by the tour guide through his microphone.

I feel like if you have to be super stealth mode about it you already know you shouldn't be doing it where you are. I count that as different than people who are just trying not to vape in front of someone's face.

 

[prairie_girl]

No, I don't really think that's an issue either, but it is routine to smell it in all public designated smoking areas. As a non-cigarette-smoker, you probably don't spend a lot of time in places like that. As far as rule-flaunting goes, it's far and away the vapers that are most often guilty there. Never mind what they're vaping; it's only legal in public in designated smoking areas but the vapers gotta vape...

I’ll admit that I’ve wondered a time or two what it would be like to watch a movie in a theatre with a little buzz but I wouldn’t ever vape in public so it just stays at home.

 

[fly girl]

After reading through most, if not all, of the posts I have to admit a bit of confusion. Pot, smells like Skunk? I have experienced both in my lifetime and Pot smells nothing like Skunk. So either those that think so either have never experienced the pungent odor of skunk or they have never been in an area where pot smoking was happening. Pot has its own kind of sweet smelling odor that is all it's own and not even close to anything else. So maybe those that were telling their kids that it was skunk they were smelling might have actually been skunk.

Well, as my first post said it doesn't not smell like the pot from college. And not to be harsh, I know you are older than me so ... we are BOTH showing our age. Pot used to smell like a burning leaves scent, NOTHING like skunk. In today's world, skunk weed city! I am sure there are variants that don't smell like skunk, but those are not the ones that are being toked up on the streets. Skunk weed is in full effect when walking in public! lol

We had the worst hair

No way! Ok, I will meet you halfway. It was so bad it was GOOD! I loved the 80's, and my hair was EVERYTHING then. And I laugh because when I pick my teen up from high school the boys mullets are in full effect. I am just waiting for the girls to switch from 70's middle part straight hair to 80's tease with ultra hold hair spray (purple can Aqua Net, be ready!)

 

[goofyernmost]

I know what a skunk smells like. I know that I think cannabis smells and tastes like skunk. Not much to be confused about

Why have you been eating skunk? I know there has been a saying for years that went like this. "I'm so hungry I could eat the north end out of a south bound skunk". I didn't know people were serious about it.

 

[nw6675]

Ooohh.

You so bad. I'm not sure we can stay friends....my friend from elementary school.

 

[nw6675]

@Mackenzie Click-Mickelson girl. You know we friends. But my head hurts a wee bit. Contact high?

 

[goofyernmost]

There are strains that are literally called skunk weed. As someone who has smoked weed, been around people who smoke weed, and — I kid you not — lived with a pet skunk, I can confirm that they smell very, very similar.

Scientific studies have even been done to determine where the skunky smell comes from. (Spoiler alert: It comes from 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol (321MBT). Geez, I would’ve guessed 4-methyl-2-butene-0-thiol (420MBT). Shows what I know!)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9201892/

A beginner’s guide:

https://grassdoor.com/blog/what-is-skunk-cannabis-grassdoor/#:~:text=Skunk weed is a potent,it popular among recreational users.

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I went to a 6th birthday party at a kids’ play place this weekend and was hit in the face with the smell of skunk when I walked in. On the way home, it wafted through the car vents from another vehicle. I’m in Georgia where it’s still illegal, so I don’t know that it would be much different for you guys who have legalized it if you hadn’t. I think there’s just been a cultural shift and people are choosing to be open about it regardless of the law.

Edit: Almost missed the opportunity to make a 420 joke.

That's a new one on me. The word weed existed long before it became another word for pot. And in the area I lived in (the country) we also had an actual wild plant that we called stink weed, smelled terrible but wasn't smokable, but having been around what was a lot of the devils lettuce while in Vietnam, never once did I find the smell of pot even close to that of a skunk. Course I am old now so maybe things have changed, but I can't help but think that if something smelled that bad, no one would be using it. Then again, one of the things that I have learned in my 75 years is that we can never overestimate the numbers of stupid humans there are roaming around free.

 

[lisaviolet]

It just hasn't played out like you would think in my area. Pre-legalization in 2018 I would smell pot all the time. Daily.
Afterwards not so much. I really didn't think it would play out like that, but it has since legalization.

And marijuana was critical to my father's palliative days with brain cancer. Brought a ton of relief for him (And in turn some for me as his caregiver.)
Not to mention a few fond memories of a horrid time.

So I think of it with great appreciation.

 

[nw6675]

Well, as my first post said it doesn't not smell like the pot from college. And not to be harsh, I know you are older than me so ... we are BOTH showing our age. Pot used to smell like a burning leaves scent, NOTHING like skunk. In today's world, skunk weed city! I am sure there are variants that don't smell like skunk, but those are not the ones that are being toked up on the streets. Skunk weed is in full effect when walking in public! lol






No way! Ok, I will meet you halfway. It was so bad it was GOOD! I loved the 80's, and my hair was EVERYTHING then. And I laugh because when I pick my teen up from high school the boys mullets are in full effect. I am just waiting for the girls to switch from 70's middle part straight hair to 80's tease with ultra hold hair spray (purple can Aqua Net, be ready!)

I feel like I killed the thread with my Mac and Mysterian jokes. So girl, I will up your Aquanet with some Salon Selectives and Rave hair spray.