I ask as I live in a terraced house and there's often a strong smell of weed upstairs, particularly in the front bedroom (house also has a loft/attic) coming from my neighbours' house (he's unemployed).
I'm a teetotaler/non-smoker and so I worry that being able to smell cannabis means it's strong enough to cause some degree of intoxication and affect me cognitively. Is this a valid fear? What does the science say?

>>16711070 (OP)
In your scenario, no, you're not going to get high from smelling a bit of your neighbor's skunk weed. Hot boxing is a thing, so if you walk into a place where others are smoking and you stay there for a while, you can indeed be high from the ambient smoke.

>>16711073
>a bit of your neighbor's skunk weed
The smell is very intense, I walk into the room and BAM there it is. I just don't want to be violated in my own home desu, and I value being sober. I've heard of contact high when you're in the same room/vicinity as somebody smoking but I don't know how/if physical walls prevent contact highs despite the smell seeping through.

>>16711087
In theory, it is effecting you, to a very tiny bit, sort of like how someone rearranging their room on the other side of the planet impacts how gravity is pulling you. It's too little to actually impact your mental abilities in any appreciable manner beyond your annoyance at having to smell skunk farts.

>>16711070 (OP)
>affect sobriety
No, the actual smoke is diffusing in all directions so you should be quite safe from that. However, living next to criminals who stink your home up and don’t care is depressing at best and dangerous at worst (potheads are often robbers, and even when they are not, their delivery driver probably is)

>>16711278
>living next to criminals
>I live in a mafia run shithole state where the constitutional right to peacefully associate with some benign plant and the right to peacefully assemble one's own brain chemistry are not respected by the local criminal organization that calls themself the police.

>>16712062
>benign plant
Anon, I...

>>16712081
>...am a retard who can't even put a logical factual sentence together.
Yes I can tell since you think that the people opposing the mafias breaking constitutional law are the criminals.

>>16712093
>constitutional law
>calls others retards yet thinks the world = America

>>16712097
This is an american board go back if you aren't american >>>/int/
And I said no such think, I just said you live in a shithole if you don't have the basic human rights guaranteed in the constitution and you are a retard if you think its better to not have those basic rights.

>>16712101
>This is an american board
No it isn't. It's a Japanese imageboard.

>>16712106
>I am too retarded to notice the complete lack of japanese language on this american imageboard.

After read through this thread, I have scientifically ascertained that executing all potheads is overall a long term boom for the civilization involved.

>>16712116
But I am OP

>>16712116
Wow Mr. Smart Brains read 3 whole paragraphs before he became irrationally homicidal.

This board needs ID's.

>>16712128
Better than being irrationally anti-civilizational by smoking weed and comparing the police to criminals.

>>16712147
Cannabis as a useful textile is vastly better at literally directly building civilizations than trading pictures of dead people, the constitution was even written on it.

The police have a long tradition of devolving into criminal enterprises which is the entire reason constitution laws had to be created to keep them in check in the first place.

>>16712101
>This is an american board
>sci
lol

>>16712155
Yes, this american website whose rules are in relation to US law hosts /sci/ not /intsci/.

>>16712162
yeah but science and math is not an american-adjacent topic

>>16712169
It is presented for an american audience in the context of american society on a website hosted in america under american laws and there has not been one topic related to math or science brought up in this thread, its just some retard who can't do a basic internet search trying to attract authoritarian retards to have some circle jerk about trying to institute fascism under the pretense of healthcare.

>>16712177
>and there has not been one topic related to math or science brought up in this thread
well yeah, because it's a thread by an american

>>16712182
It doesn't really look that way since the ones agreeing with OP are the one's who thought this was a japanese site where american laws don't apply.

>>16712194
Japanese law would be even worse for the pot heads.
>In Japan, both recreational and medicinal cannabis use is illegal as of 2024, although a law was passed in late 2023 to legalize medical cannabis. Possession can lead to severe penalties, including imprisonment for up to seven years, while the cultivation of hemp is permitted under strict regulations.

>>16712198
see
>>16712062
Just because their mafia is called yakuza instead of mafia doesn't mean they don't live in a mafia run shithole without basic constitutional rights where anyone associated with the ruling party can have as much cannabis as they want.

>>16711070 (OP)
>a strong smell of weed
How do you know what it smells like? Have you smoked it before?

>>16712338
It smells nice

>>16711070 (OP)
OP, you should watch 'Reefer Madness'. Hate to tell you, but it's too late. You've been exposed and probably will end up going insane.

>>16712200
Stay out of civilized countries. Go ruin some thirdie nigger country instead

>>16711070 (OP)
Ifind this very interesting in the epistemological sense of reason that allows for the tautological quantum phenomenon of reason lmao

>>16712529
Civilized countries are the only ones that can actually mass produce it and use it as a means of economic exchange based directly on labor instead of having some Kang Negro dictate everything and give good goy points to the obedient so all the village women know who to flock to.

>>16713418
Civilizational nations don't do weed due to its negative impacts on the individual and society as a whole.

>>16712110
English imageboard*

>>16711070 (OP)
go next door and tell him his carbon filter is shit.

>>16714078
Civilized nations are the only ones who can handle double edged swords, its only nations full of retards who need a nanny state to tell them what to do.

>>16712150
>cannabis is a useful textile
How often do you smoke pieces of your clothing in a blunt to get high?

>>16712062
What about everyone else's right to peacefully disassociate from the smell of your drug habit in their own homes?

>>16715131
Nothing in the constitution says that you get to be protected by a nanny state from smells you don't like, it only says that even if other people don't like it, you get to associate with smells you do as long as you can do it peacefully, but literally just plug your nose if you don't like the way the world smells.

My room still fucking stinks despite using 4 x air fresheners

>>16711070 (OP)
no. you cant get high from that

There's no fucking scientific knowledge to be found here