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Not only this, but pot smokers stink from a great distance. When driving I can often tell when a person who regularly smokes is in the car ahead of me.

Once I went to a small comedy club with very close seating. A young kid came in and just stunk to high hell, made it really hard to enjoy the show.

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That is nonsense. I could roll around in shit and drive and you wouldn’t be able to smell me from a car behind me, that’s crazy.

I'm not making this up. And I'm not alone in this (I'll ask a passenger if they too can smell it and they'll often say they can).

I might have a more sensitive nose than most.

Regular pot smokers absolutely stink.

As to your comment about shit, agreed I likely couldn't smell it from a car distance with windows up. Which tells you how much stronger pot smell actually is since I actually can smell that.

Nah, I can confirm I've smelled heavy pot smokers through my car. Happens at least once a week.

I think it's specifically blunt smokers, but I have no data to support that.

I feel like these people can't tell the difference between driving past a skunk and cannabis

No you cannot smell a person through your car and through their car. What?

I often drive by a home, in a state with legal weed, and I can smell the stench from the road ... every single time too, and no, they aren't smoking outside at all times of day. I'm not anti weed, and I wouldn't complain about someone smoking on their own privacy, or even when alone/not around others, but you can indeed smell it from afar. And if you smoke, you know.

My guess is that they are growing pot, not just smoking it. These days you can smell the industrial marijuana warehouses from the freeway in Oakland, inside a car with the windows up.

If you can smell weed coming from the car ahead of you, it's probably because they are smoking weed in the car.

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