Santee, CA Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

Section 7.22.200 sits in Article 2 of Chapter 7.22, Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages by Minors, and is scoped explicitly to people under 21, defined as a 'minor' earlier in the chapter at § 7.22.110. Subsection A bars a minor from consuming an alcoholic beverage, marijuana or other controlled substance at any public place or any place open to the public. Subsection B extends the ban to places not open to the public, such as a private residence, unless the minor is consuming an alcoholic beverage under the direct supervision of their own parent or legal guardian, a carve-out that notably does not extend to marijuana or other controlled substances even with parental supervision.

The section opens 'except as permitted by State law,' which defers to state minimum-age and medical cannabis provisions the City cannot override. There is no separate Santee ordinance banning adult marijuana consumption in public beyond what state cannabis law already does, so any adult public-consumption question falls to state law, not this municipal code. Enforcement authority comes from § 7.22.220, which lets the City prosecute violations of the article criminally, civilly or administratively and preserves peace officers' arrest authority for any related offense, and from § 7.22.230, which confirms the article does not apply where preempted by state or federal law.