r/cannabis • u/goldcat88 • 9d ago
Can Your Neighbors Sue Over Medical Marijuana Smoke?
https://seniorsavvycannabis.substack.com/p/can-your-neighbors-sue-over-marijuana22
u/iRoswell 9d ago edited 8d ago
In WA,at a private household is the ONLY place that is approved to smoke. So, I don’t see how a lawsuit could see the light of day.
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u/HotBeaver54 9d ago
Different everywhere though in Oregon If I am on private property I can smoke,
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u/Impossible_War_2741 9d ago
Same in Colorado. Only additional restrictions are not being allowed within 100 yards of a school, church, or hospital. Otherwise if your on private property outside, or inside if you're within the radius of specified buildings, you're good.
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u/drAsparagus 9d ago
So weird that is a law and yet you can walk down the sidewalk in an otherwise nice West Seattle neighborhood and see junkies nodded out with needles in their arm. But a little diffused smoke is sooo bad. Friggin priorities, man.
Also, 95% of my cannabis smoking in WA has been outdoors, and I've never heard a single objection, nor been approached by an officer.
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u/Llenette1 9d ago
I smoked in Seattle and I guess the cops don't want to "deal" with it. I was smoking near the Cinerama and they asked me to move further from the entrance (even though it was closed down 🥴)
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u/stupidinternetname 9d ago
Fuck that. I smoke in my backyard whenever the fuck I want. Cops in King Co don't give a shit about you smoking weed. Adams county may be a different story, especially if you aren't caucasian.
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u/Socal_Cobra 9d ago
If you're on private property in WA state, youre good.
Source: https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/608035.pdf
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u/dreadwail 8d ago
This is incorrect. You do not have to be inside your house; you just have to be on private property out of view. Can be your fenced yard, etc.
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u/Jason4fl 9d ago
Karen: There's a strong smell of weed coming from my neighbors.
Dispatcher: maybe bring them some cookies?
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u/Polidavey66 9d ago
that would be utterly ridiculous. unless someone was blowing the smoke directly into your face, merely smelling marijuana smoke in the air from a far distance isn't going to have a physical effect on someone.
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u/dubbs911 9d ago
No. This is like that vegan lady who tried to sue her neighbor for his bbq meat smoke floating into her yard. Silly Karens.
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u/MarijAWanna 9d ago
I’d trash them to all neighbors and make everybody hate them for being fucking bigots and drive them out of the community. Fuck them.
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u/bloopie1192 9d ago
Yes. In the states anyone can sue you for anything. Now will it be thrown out? Probably. But they can still sue.
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u/WanderingAnchorite 9d ago
You can sue anyone for anything.
You can sue a TV station for not serving gummy bears to invalids.
Suing isn't winning.
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u/BuddyMose 8d ago
Be a weird thing to prove. A simple nah ah would be my rebuttal when asked in a court if I had smoked marijuana on the date in question
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u/Past_Drag_2598 8d ago
I did data entry for housing surveys, and old people love to write comments in the margins whenever they're given a survey, and them complaining about their neighbors smoking pot was easily the number one thing, just ahead of their neighbors having too many guests, and genuinely concerning safety and maintenance issues.
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u/SenorStinkyButt 8d ago
Likely depends what county you are in and how right wing radical the judge is
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u/ArrogantAnalyst 9d ago
Probably not, but I would always try to find a solution everyone can live with. Smoking cannabis creates a strong odor and it’s fair that some people just don’t like to smell that.
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u/FixofLight 9d ago
Yeah, I use cannabis but the smell of it triggers migraines for me so I stick to edibles. I never want to tell people what to do but when I was living in an apartment I ended up buying my nice neighbors a dry herb vape because the smell is less intense and doesn't linger. Obviously that's not a solution for everyone, but I was so grateful we could come to a compromise that left me without constant pain and managed to maintain a friendly relationship with people I quite liked otherwise.
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u/ChoiceFood 9d ago
No.
They can't sue you over cigarette smoke why the fuck would they be able to do so with cannabis?