Anyone else notice the smell?

Anyone else notice the smell?

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TwyRob

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312 posts

111 months

Saturday 7th December 2019
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Hi all,

I've noticed lately that it doesn't seem to matter where I am driving or when to a certain degree but the strong smell of cannabis seems to be coming from quite a few cars.

It's obvious when passing people on the motorway, in cities like London, Swansea and Birmingham, in towns like Reading and High Wycombe and alarmingly even in the countryside 5 miles from my village today. It seems more prevalent after dark and once you spot which vehicle it is that stinks the standard of driving does seem to correlate with the intensity of the smell.

Is anyone else noticing that drug driving is a more common thing now and the people do it with impunity? It's just so obvious that they must be counting on there being no Police anywhere.

That kind of stacks up too, I drove from Nottingham to South Oxon a few weeks ago on a Saturday evening in a 48yo Beetle. It took me 6 hours with many breaks and the only place where I saw police was near Milton Keynes on the A road that is parallel to the M1. There were loads there. Otherwise, there was no one about to catch anyone doing anything.

Does anyone else increasingly notice the stench of drugs from other cars while driving?

TwyRob

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312 posts

111 months

Sunday 8th December 2019
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T-195 said:
I am not trying to be the fun police. However, if you believe that driving while smoking weed should be acceptable because it's just a bit of fun then I think you need a bit of education.

Unrelated to the fun police bit; I had a thought that stopping some of these cars might help the police with their county lines work, especially the ones on the motorway heading out of big cities late at night. It's a massive distribution network and it would not surprise me if those involved thought it was absolutely normal to smoke weed and drive.