Canton, OH Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

Section 513.10, Adult Use Cannabis Control, implements Ohio's adult-use marijuana law at the municipal level. Subsection (a) permits an adult-use consumer to cultivate up to six homegrown marijuana plants, capped at twelve per residence, only within a secured, screened area not visible from a public space, and to possess, process, store, and use marijuana grown there, but subsection (a)(3) draws the public-use line: paragraph A bars cultivating, growing, or possessing homegrown marijuana outside those limits, paragraph B bars knowingly consuming adult-use or homegrown marijuana in a public place, and paragraph C bars anyone operating a public place from knowingly permitting that consumption on the premises.

Subsection (b) separately restricts smoking, combustion, or vaporization to privately owned residential or agricultural real property, and bans it outright in child care homes, halfway houses, rental units whose lease forbids it, and any public place or place of employment as defined by Ohio R.C. 3794.01. The ordinance's penalty subsection, (e)(5), expressly classifies a violation of the cultivation clause, (a)(3)A, as illegal cultivation of marijuana under Ohio R.C. 2925.04; it does not separately state a misdemeanor degree for the public-consumption clauses in (a)(3)B and C, so those violations draw whatever classification a court assigns under the Chapter 513 mandatory-fine schedule in Section 513.99, ranging from $100 for a minor misdemeanor to $1,000 for a first-degree misdemeanor.