Carver County, MN Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

04 of the county code makes it unlawful to use cannabis flower, cannabis products, lower-potency hemp edibles, or hemp-derived consumer products in a public place or place of public accommodation unless the premises is licensed to permit on-site consumption of adult-use cannabis, or licensed or registered with the state for on-site consumption of lower-potency hemp edibles. A second clause bars vaporizing or smoking any of those products anywhere the smoke, aerosol, or vapor would be inhaled by a minor, regardless of location. 03 defines PUBLIC PLACE broadly: county parks, beaches, recreation areas and trails, parking lots, vehicles or recreational vehicles parked within a county park or trail, public streets, rights-of-way, sidewalks, and any enclosed indoor area open to the public such as theaters, restaurants, bars, retail stores, gyms, and building common areas.

Excluded from the definition are a private residence and its curtilage or yard, private property not generally open to the public (unless the owner has explicitly barred cannabis use there), and the premises of an establishment or event licensed for on-site consumption. 05 lets a city or township inside Carver County adopt its own ordinance that preempts this chapter within that municipality's borders, but the county chapter always keeps governing county-owned property and county parks no matter what a city or town enacts. The chapter was adopted under Ord. S. 0263, subd. 5.