California Apartment Association

A CAA-sponsored bill clarifying that landlords can prohibit renters from smoking marijuana in apartments is halfway to becoming law.

On Thursday, April 5, the Assembly approved AB 2300 on a 74-0 vote, sending it to the state Senate.

“This is about protecting families that live in close proximity to others,” the author of the bill,  Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, said last week in a statement. “Second-hand smoke can be a real problem, especially for families who live in apartments or other multi-family residences.”

In 2011, the California Apartment Association sponsored, and the state Legislature overwhelmingly passed, legislation to allow rental property owners to prohibit the use of tobacco within rental properties.

Given the fact that state law has decriminalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes, AB 2300 makes clear that property owners can still ban the smoking of cannabis just as they can ban the smoking of tobacco. AB 2300, however, does not address the consumption of medical marijuana in non-combustable forms, such as edibles. Wood elaborates on this point in the video below.

Related content:

• Landlords could prohibit tenants from smoking medical marijuana under bill OKd by Assembly (Los Angeles Times, May 5)
• Renters’ secondhand pot smoke targeted in new California bill (Santa Rosa Press Democrat, May 3)
• California bill would allow landlords to ban marijuana for renters (Sacramento Bee, April 27)
• CAA’s marijuana bill advances to Assembly floor (CAA News, April 27)