Simi Valley, CA Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

04. The public-use ban itself is short and deliberately narrow: it prohibits smoking, vaporizing, or ingesting cannabis or medicinal cannabis "as a use or activity in any public place," full stop, with no separate list of exempted locations, buffer distances, or hours written into the section. The second sentence does the real legal work: the section is "declarative of State law" and "does not impose any additional restrictions or penalties beyond that in State law," meaning Simi Valley isn't creating its own cannabis-consumption misdemeanor or civil fine schedule here.

Instead, enforcement rides on whatever California's own public-consumption law already provides, which bars smoking or ingesting cannabis in most places where smoking tobacco is prohibited and in any public place not licensed for on-site consumption. Because the local ordinance doesn't layer on a separate City fine, a Simi Valley police officer citing someone under this section is applying the same standard, and the same penalty structure, that would apply anywhere else in California, just with the local code section available as a citation basis. 03, and commercial cannabis dispensing is prohibited outright in all zones.