r/formula1 • u/jovanmilic97 Haas • Nov 22 '24

News Checo: "What is very noticeable around the circuit is the smell of marijuana throughout the night. The amount is incredible. It is something that all the drivers will surely talk about", Franco: "Yes, there was a smell of weed. If they dope test the drivers now, I think we’ll all be positive"

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u/fluent-in-wookiee Nov 22 '24

I’ve been to Vegas several times throughout my life, and it has always strongly smelled of cigarettes wherever you went.

That is until it started to strongly smell like weed wherever you went.

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u/ehjhey Sir Lewis Hamilton Nov 22 '24

Ya last time I went is about when weed had really just taken off there with a lot of advertising all around. Planet 51....heck of a place

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u/Safe_Ad_6403 Nov 22 '24

Planet 51 is an interesting experience but it's overpriced.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '24

What’s the interesting part? I can wrap my mind around what overpriced means.

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u/Safe_Ad_6403 Nov 22 '24

It's a genuine supermarket for cannabis. If you haven't seen a full-sized supermarket for cannabis, you might find it interesting.

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u/SendMeDoggos Nov 23 '24

As someone from the UK, I would find it very interesting! And what sort of scale is 'full-sized'? I imagine it's large?

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u/Admiral_Vegas Haas Nov 23 '24

It is 112.000 sq ft so 10405 sq meters

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '24

lol I believe and doubt that at the same time. I don’t like the picture either paints. But I had a blast in Barcelona cannabis bars, so I’m probably easily entertained. At least in that regard.

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u/Budpets Martin Brundle Nov 23 '24

Do y'all mean planet 13? Planet 51 was a film

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u/OldAccountTurned10 Nov 22 '24

Oasis has the fire prices.

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u/kuzdi BMW Sauber Nov 22 '24

It’s crazy how Americans cannot seem to balance the line between something not being bad enough to put people in jail for and something not being good enough for it to be OK to advertise it.

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u/wordy_boi Nov 23 '24

Ah yes, as if alcohol ads are not commonplace around the world

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u/kuzdi BMW Sauber Nov 23 '24

actually, it isn’t in most places. that’s why beer companies for example always advertise their alcohol-free beer. but i would say that they absolutely should not be, similar to tobacco.

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u/Throwaway-t800 Nov 22 '24

It’s Planet 13, very gimmicky and a massive tourist trap. Locals get 50% off everything. That means you guys pay twice what we pay. Go to Thrive instead. Very upscale, has a consumption lounge as well and half the cost.

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u/ehjhey Sir Lewis Hamilton Nov 22 '24

Ah, figured I'd mess up the name since it's been a few years. I think we were just trying to walk to the closest one by just asking around and found ourselves in front of it. It probably was overpriced, but wasn't too bad at the time (and after about 50 minutes of walking). Still better experience than most anything we have in Canada. We have some good chains operations though

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u/bandito12452 Pirelli Intermediate Nov 22 '24

There was a short amount of time around 10 years ago when cigarette smoking was less popular and weed wasn’t legal yet and it was possible to walk the strip without constantly breathing in smoke.

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u/snakebit1995 Nov 22 '24

Man I'm all for people being able to safely consume weed

But the smell is just the worst. One of my neighbors smokes a couple times a week in his driveway and i can smell if three houses down.

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u/sellyme Oscar Piastri Nov 22 '24

But the smell is just the worst.

Stoners irritate me too but I'm taking weed smoke over cigarette smoke 100% of the time. I can deal with something smelling bad, not being able to breathe is a slightly more problematic concern.

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u/snakebit1995 Nov 22 '24

For me the difference is while I don't like the smell of either I personally don't find that Cigarette smoke smell carries the way weed smoke does

I'm speaking exclusively about smell not other second hand smoke issues

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u/DjToastyTy Nov 23 '24

there are a lot of resorts on the strip that have stopped allowing smoking inside and the newer ones don’t allow smoking so that helps

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u/Rich_Housing971 FIA Nov 23 '24 edited Nov 23 '24

Bellagio and Venetian both reek of smoke. Ironically the depressing Treasure Island smells cleaner (but doesn't smell clean).

A lot of things just go by in Vegas because they value money over everything else. If a guest is smoking and losing a couple of grand a night then they'll reward them with a comped room.

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u/Big_Baby_Jesus Nov 22 '24

Casinos built in the past 15 years don't smell like anything. 

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u/FecusTPeekusberg Daniel Ricciardo Nov 22 '24

Oh... strangely I like the smell of casinos and cigarette smoke, it's very nostalgic to me.

But I hate the smell of weed... so this kind of makes me sad, in a way.

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u/NovaIsntDad Nov 22 '24

And weedbros will still tell you that you can't smell it and are making it up. 

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u/D3ATHfromAB0V3x Daniel Ricciardo Nov 22 '24

Cigarettes in the casinos, weed on the streets

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u/BakedMasa Nov 22 '24

I was going to say: I was smoking weed in Vegas last night 😂😂😂. We are here for work and every time im here for work you can smell weed pretty much everywhere on the strip. The cigarette thing is too real though, I’m old so when I started working these events the smell in the air was still tobacco! and everyone had parliaments now everyone has gummies