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[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I assume people just can’t identify the smell of cockroaches until they learned it? Similar to people being oblivious to the smell of marijuana when not familiar with it.

I’m not sure I would recognize the smell of roaches if I didn’t keep them as food for other animals. Stinky little buggers.

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Weird. Marijuana has an iconic, skunk-like / rotten bologna smell to me. I can smell someone smoking up to maybe 500 feet away, sometimes from the inside of my car. It's a deeply repugnant smell.

The strange thing being, I've smelled the actual flowers and the plant up close, and it just smells like grass. It only smells like shit when it's burning, oddly enough.

No idea why. Everything about the "natural smell" up close screams "this is a plant and can't harm you in any way shape or form". That specific experience made me in favor of decriminalization.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

You should be able to smell a female plant in full (oily) bloom. I've read that smell is one of the problems that illegal farms/grow box owners have when tyring to stay undetected.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Similar to people being oblivious to the smell of marijuana when not familiar with it.

I can't smell certain types of marijuana, I can smell the more home grown type. Now I have to be next to 6 people smoking to smell it. I don't smoke it either, so it's not that. I think they've crop engineered it to take the smell out maybe? It could be just me.

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