Piscataway, NJ Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

Piscataway's cannabis-in-public rule lives inside its 2019 smoking ordinance, § 3-27, rather than a stand-alone marijuana statute. Section 3-27.1 defines Edibles as a food item containing Cannabis or Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and Township Facilities as all parks and recreational facilities the Township owns, including playgrounds, athletic fields and parking lots. Section 3-27.2b then bans both smoking and the consumption of Edibles in every public park and recreation facility, athletic field, playground and pool facility the Township owns or operates, along with any adjacent parking area, driveway or drive aisle posted with no-smoking signs.

The same prohibition, at § 3-27.2a and § 3-27.2c, extends to indoor and outdoor municipal buildings and to any vehicle the Township registers, owns or operates. Separately, § 3-28.1 bars any cannabis establishment, cultivator, manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, distributor or delivery service from operating anywhere in the Township, so retail cannabis access itself is closed off locally even though the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act legalized adult use statewide. Because § 3-27's ban is tied to Township-owned property rather than to all public space, it does not reach sidewalks, streets or private property outside Township control, which fall to state cannabis law rather than this local ordinance.