re: Blocking weed smell in an apartment, need help

Is weed legal in TX? Do your neighbors have a medical card? If not, your landlord should take care of this with the neighbor. At the very least they should pay for any expense incurred to make your apartment habitable. If your lease isn't clear on how to notify and do this, and you don't have a clear understanding of TX URLTA statute, you need to consult a local landlord-tenant lawyer to do it properly. Unfortunately, you can’t always just do it on your own and demand reimbursement, even after what should be clear notice of a violation.

If the landlord says they won't abate the nuisance caused by the neighbor's illegal behavior, you are probably legally justified to break the lease. Look at the language of your contract to see if they are responsible for your costs in doing so. Probably not, because their lawyer wrote it, but I would still make the demand if I were you--especially if you can argue it is because of the neighbor breaking TX law and the landlord refusing to address it.

I love the smell of weed (fresh or burnt), but I wouldn't want it in my professional clothes and wouldn't want my kids thinking that is a normal smell.

Disclaimer: I am not a TX attorney and none of the above should be taken as legal advice or create a lawyer-client relationship.

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When they finally legalize it, I'm hoping that the smell will eventually become just as socially distasteful as cigarette smoke. One can only hope, but I doubt it

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From my observation, people who blatantly smoke joints in public (sidewalks and streets) are also happy to smoke cigarettes in those same spaces. They also tend to drink and sleep/live there. So social norms don't really apply.

An Ozone Generator will kill the smell but you cannot be in the same room as the machine while it is on or soon after. Nor can pets or plants. Obviously, the smell would keep coming back until the kind neighbors stop.

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Yeah what all these alcoholics is be bitching about is the blunt smoke not the actual smell of weed. Weed smoke itself actually is be smell good. Like really damn good. Joint and blunt papers is be not smell so good.

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This has to be a troll.

depending upon the state, an anonymous call to the police might help temporarily.

It's gone beyond that now. It is far mor common now that it was 10 years ago, even though the homeless problem is the same as it was then

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It's gone beyond that now. It is far mor common now that it was 10 years ago, even though the homeless problem is the same as it was then

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I don’t know what city you're in, but my experience is that the homeless in major cities are far more brazen with open air, daytime weed use in the last 10 years. They know misdemeanor possession and public use will not be prosecuted or even ticketed.

You might find other "normal" citizens smoking somewhat discreetly more often now in a public park or something, secluding themselves as appropriate, but they're not just blazing on the sidewalk or walking down the street with a fiery blunt like the homeless folks blowing clouds in your face as you stroll down the Miracle Mile at 7 am on Sunday morning.

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100% it's not hippies.

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Way to catch the sarcasm, Einstein.

You also don't see many homeless people driving, but I lost count of the times I've seen/smelled people smoking weed and driving. It's not just the homeless, not by a long shot. I've smelled it in multiple cities in areas where no homeless are around, and have witness normal everyday folks smoking it.