“The city of Bessemer stinks,” said council member Linda Nelson during a recent city council meeting. Plugging her nose to prove her point further, Nelson named the culprit: “You can smell marijuana everywhere. We’ve got people who can’t sit in their backyard because the smell from their neighbors is so bad.”

The small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has such a bad stench problem that the city council voted to buy an odor-detection device and draft an ordinance to limit the number of marijuana plants the town’s residents can grow. The device, called a Nasal Ranger, will cost $3,400 with training, but Nelson said that if it helps reduce the stink even a little bit, it will be worth the investment.