Denver Department of Environmental Health officer Ben Siller uses his 'smellescrope' - proper name Olfactometer - to detect marijuana odor and then investigate whether the law has been broken based on the strength of the smell.Daily Mail Online
Siller, who has been investigating odor complaints (not restricted to marijuana) for 26 years, told 7News that his job is primarily to call out businesses that grow marijuana and are affecting neighbors and passers-by with the plant's stench.
According to the Denver Post, the odor has to reach a level of 8:1 in order to receive a fine of $2000.
Such a violation has not been reported since 1994.
'It has to be a very strong odor,' Siller said.
A major issue in Denver at the moment is a proposal to make the very smell of marijuana a public crime.
'Odor can be subject' said Mary Beth Susman, Council President.
'It's hard to legislate odor.
'The strength that is required to register on the Nasal Ranger is something we need to look at.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Denver: "Meet the 'Nasal Rangers'"
"Pot smokers in Denver, Colorado - where the limited sale, possession and growth of recreational marijuana is legal - have had their noses put out of joint recently by Public Health agents dubbed the 'Nasal Rangesr', whose job is to sniff them out."
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WTF! They vote to legalize it then vote to impede it.
Anyone know if the price of pot has declined in Colorado?
What is the law? Where can it be purchased?
I told you about the skunk.
I was taking a nice spring day walk through the neighborhood and was struck, simply struck by the pleasant smells all around. I passed by a tree that was releasing a pleasant perfume into the air.
Turned the corner and smelled a skunk.
A proper physical real animal skunk. It is a distinct and alarming smell to confront right there in the city streets. I looked around for the creature but didn't see any around. Surely, it was right there somewhere in the weeds. Wondered where it would have come from. How it managed to make it into the city this far. Imagined it coming up from Cherry Creek and grossing everyone out down there before it crawled its way out of the pit that the creek is in. Then I walked inside the building and spoke directly to the receptionist, there were two people talking, one with his hand inside a large jar rubbing it with a cloth, cleaning it beyond regular clean.
"I smelled a skunk outside your building."
They looked at each other and laughed.
It's not funny. It's a skunk. They could have rabies. They can become alarmed and spray you. I was nonplussed. Why were they laughing?
"It's not funny. Really. I smelled a skunk outside."
"It's probably us." And they laughed together some more.
The raw weed smells that strong. The unburned weed is so sticky with resin it stinks up the whole neighborhood. That is what they are talking about. A warehouse filled with those plants will smell like a zoo for skunks.
Where can you buy it? On any street, nearly. There are more dispensaries than bottle shops in this city and that is a lot of dispensaries.
$2000 fines? You think they guys aren't going to start levying them all the time? You don't know the sick mentality of meter maids.
I'm such an animal loving freak that I once freed a skunk from a trap. I called Greenwood and they hooked me up with the skunk man.
Over the phone he explained to me how to release the cage without the skunk spraying me.
I had to place a blanket over the cage. It worked.
I'd be fine w/ Nasal Rangers strategically positioned around here. Every year I religiously attend the Banff Film festival at the local Theater. The audience is at least 1/4 un-showered hippies. If you are unlucky enough to sit next to one, it's a powerful nauseating rank. There should be fines.
Legalizing is just a means for the government and its cronies to tap a new revenue stream. Any actual benefit to the consumer will be fleeting if not completely illusory. Higher prices and increased policing. That's what you get for believing progressive political dreams.
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