Senior citizens are at a record high for getting high. For Fiorella Terenzi, it’s been…not cool, man.
To argue her case, she held a piece of toilet paper by the crack in their front door to test the skunky draft and found it strong enough to make the tissue “wave like a flag. She had intense conversations with the neighbors that felt straight out of high school.
She placed multiple calls to police but said officers were reluctant to knock on the couple’s door late at night. That includes the police she’s reached out to with complaints about offending neighbors, including an elderly stroke victim whose fumes made Livingston feel sick and contributed to what she called a “marijuana sauna” in the humid air around her home at the time in Tallahassee, Fla.
Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s ruling, setting a legal precedent. In 2023, the D.C. In 2025, the D.C.
Because they upset his stomach, he said, he couldn’t eat gummies.
Eventually, she sued defendants including neighbor Thomas Cackett, a restaurant manager in his early 70s who said he used medical marijuana legally prescribed by a doctor to treat pain related to past ailments and surgeries. In court, he said cannabis helped him fall asleep after restaurant shifts. Superior Court ruled Cackett didn’t have the right to “disrupt the full use and enjoyment” of Ippolito-Shepherd’s property and barred him from smoking cannabis in his home.
