Skokie, IL Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

Chapter 11 of the Skokie Village Code, which regulates recreational and medical cannabis dispensaries, contains two on-site consumption bans. Section 11-21 prohibits consuming cannabis within a cannabis dispensary itself for any purpose and in any form, listing samples, tastings, edible products or byproducts, or smoking as covered forms of consumption. Section 11-22 extends that same ban to any parking lot or open area adjacent to a dispensary, again covering samples, tastings, edibles, byproducts, and smoking. The section places responsibility on the dispensary's owner or manager: no licensee or its officers, associates, members, representatives, agents or employees may permit cannabis consumption in violation of the chapter.

Every dispensary must post a sign on the property stating that it is unlawful to consume cannabis in the parking lot or adjacent open area. These provisions were adopted by Ordinance No. daily (Section 11-23), and the Cannabis Commissioner, a role held by the Mayor or a designee, who oversees dispensary licensing (Section 11-2 definitions). Because Skokie is a home-rule municipality, it can regulate on-site and adjacent-property cannabis consumption more tightly than the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act requires, and the village used that authority to close the parking-lot loophole that would otherwise let customers step just outside the door to consume.