Keep Your Stink To Yourself Or Face A Fine

[GrassMonkey]

So cigarettes, landfills, and any other big business with money can stink the air up, but not canibis smokers, ridiculous...

 

Police in Denver are using a nose telescope to tackle odours from the recreational use of marijuana

 

As more cities in America legalise the drug, attention has switched to the pungent smell that wafts from the joint itself.

 

Denver has passed a new “odour ordinance” with a potential $2,000 (£1,247) fine for anyone found guilty of polluting the atmosphere. The need to draw up standards emerged because of the confusion over the legal position of whether somebody smoking marijuana in their own home could be committing an environmental offence when the smell seeps into the street.

 

Under the new law an offence is committed if the odour is detectable when the smoke is mixed with seven times the volume of clean air.

 

The nose telescope – also known as an olfactometer – is the device used to measure the concentration of cannabis in the air.

 

It has something of a Heath-Robinson appearance with a telescope type device attached to a nosepiece.

 

Denver Police have opted for something called the “Nasal Ranger”, costing $1.500 (£935).

 

However the more sophisticated version of the technology, which also records both the concentration and GPS coordinates of where the offending whiff was recorded costs $3,500 (£2,183).

 

This does, however, include a subscription to a patented odour tracker programme.

 

Denver is one of a number of cities across the USA to have legalised pot.

 

Last week recreational use of the drug was legalised for adults over 21 in Portland, Maine at the other end of the country.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10448756/Police-use-nose-telescope-for-cannabis-odour-mapping.html

[Hydraulic Jack]

Phat (not phresh) filters rock....They last longer than most too..............HJ

[bc48059]

This is comical considering Denver has one of the worst air quality ratings in the US.

[GregS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB-yswOrzc

[Celliach]

It's my belief that we will see more of this in Michigan after the Ter Beek vs. Wyoming decision.

[Jim Shorts]

Wow, an Olfactometer is real? I had to look that up.

 

[Norby]

Meanwhile in NYS, a glass recycling plant near Attica stanks up a town so bad people were getting sick and leaving their homes for weeks/months.  The first DEC tests say that there is nothing over the limit, while glass and plastic piles smoulder in the background.  It took months for them to get anything done about Hillcrest, the business creating the stink, but citizens without deep pockets get shookdown, nice.  The only reason ANYTHING got done about it was a conservative talk show host bringing it to public attention.  Got to love that government for the people, by the people.  I guess only corporations are people now.

Edited November 20, 2013 by Norby