Kitsap County, WA Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

160, "Liquor - Drugs," opens by making it unlawful to bring into or possess or consume in any park any narcotic, hallucinogen, or any other drug or substance that may cause irrational or unnatural behavior if consumed, injected into, breathed or otherwise administered to a human being or animal. That language is deliberately broad and substance-neutral: it is not limited to a listed schedule of controlled substances, so it reaches marijuana and cannabis products along with any other intoxicant capable of producing irrational or unnatural behavior, whether smoked, vaped, eaten or otherwise ingested.

Unlike the alcohol clause in the same section, which the county carves an exception into for contractually reserved community-center areas, the drug clause has no reserved-area exception anywhere in the chapter; the prohibition on drug possession and use in parks is total. The rule traces to the original 1971 parks ordinance (Ordinance 6) and was carried forward unchanged by the 1993 amendment that added the alcohol reservation system, meaning the legislature revisited this section and chose not to soften the drug ban even as it relaxed the alcohol rule.

Because this authority sits in the county's parks chapter, it governs conduct in county-operated parks within unincorporated Kitsap County only, not in parks run by Bremerton, Port Orchard, Poulsbo or Bainbridge Island, or on the Suquamish or Port Gamble S'Klallam reservations.