Can you smoke cannabis in a hotel room? The rules in 21 states

No California hotel room is a legal place to smoke or vape cannabis. Since 1 Jan 2024, when Senate Bill 626 took effect, hotels, motels and other transient lodging may not allow smoking anywhere in the building, guest rooms included; before that, up to 20% of rooms could be smoking rooms, the Department of Public Health explains (Labor Code 6404.5(e)). The department's summary lists cannabis among the products California's clean indoor air laws cover.

Proposition 64 tied cannabis to those tobacco rules. The section it added to the Health and Safety Code, 11362.3, does not let anyone smoke cannabis where smoking tobacco is prohibited, or smoke or ingest it in a public place except a licensed lounge, and it defines smoking to include an electronic device that makes vapor. The Department of Cannabis Control's consumer page puts it simply: you can use cannabis on private property, but not in public places like restaurants or bars.

Edibles in the room are the hotel's call. Section 11362.45 keeps the right of a private owner to prohibit or restrict cannabis on its own property, and the DCC says most hotels do not allow guests to use cannabis in their rooms and suggests asking at reception. The same rules apply in San Francisco, San Jose and every other California city. One limit to the smoke-free law: the health department says businesses on tribal land, casinos included, are outside it, because tribes are sovereign nations.

In New York a hotel room rented to guests sits outside the state's smoking ban, so state law allows cannabis there, but the hotel can say no. Penal Law 222.05 makes smoking cannabis lawful for adults 21 and older unless state law prohibits it, and Penal Law 222.10 bars smoking or vaping it wherever the Public Health Law's smoking article does. That article counts cannabis as smoking, then says it does not apply to a hotel or motel room rented to guests (Public Health Law 1399-n, 1399-q).

When the 2021 legalization law reworked that exemption list, it kept the cannabis ban in private cars, tobacco shops, cigar bars and outdoor dining areas, but not in hotel rooms or private homes (Public Health Law 1399-q(2)). The hotel keeps the last word: the Office of Cannabis Management says hotel owners can ban smoking or vaporizing cannabis on their properties. Lobbies, hallways, elevators and hotel bars are smoke-free as places of employment, bars or restaurants (Public Health Law 1399-n, 1399-o), and breaking that rule carries a civil penalty of up to $25 or 20 hours of community service (Penal Law 222.10).

New York City follows the same line. Its Health Department says the city's Smoke-Free Air Act prohibits smoking, including cannabis, in a range of places, and its 2022 rule lists the spots that are open to tobacco but closed to cannabis: private cars, tobacco stores and bars, outdoor dining areas, e-cigarette stores, and enclosed rooms such as hotel conference rooms during tobacco events. Hotel and motel guest rooms appear on the city's list of places where tobacco smoking is not regulated and are absent from the cannabis list (24 RCNY 10-02, 10-03). In Manhattan and the Bronx, the room comes down to the hotel's policy.

Nevada leaves the room to the property owner, and in Las Vegas the owners we checked say no. The Cannabis Compliance Board's guidance says you cannot use cannabis in any public place, that it can be consumed on private property as long as the owner has not prohibited it, and that it may be consumed at a licensed lounge. The board adds that whoever occupies, owns or controls private property may prohibit or restrict smoking and other cannabis activity there. A casino floor or resort restaurant is open to the public, so it is off limits.

Gaming regulators explain why resorts hold that line. In Notice 2014-39, dated 6 May 2014, the Gaming Control Board said a gaming licensee's involvement in a medical marijuana establishment was not consistent with the effective regulation of gaming unless federal law changed. On 5 Mar 2018 the Gaming Policy Committee reaffirmed that licensees shall not participate in the marijuana industry, and recommended allowing cannabis trade shows only where they do not facilitate possession or consumption on licensed property. Notice 2021-101 of 26 Oct 2021 said that cannabis policy had not changed. These papers are addressed to licensees, not guests, but they shape house rules.

The three Las Vegas hotels whose cannabis policies we read all ban it. The STRAT says it does not allow recreational marijuana in its hotel rooms, casino or public spaces, although it offers designated smoking and vaping rooms. Virgin Hotels Las Vegas prohibits marijuana in any form, naming smoking, ingesting, oils and lotions, in guest rooms and across the property. The Ahern Hotel says marijuana is not permitted anywhere on its property. Cigarettes on a casino floor are a tobacco exemption: the Southern Nevada Health District lists casino areas closed to minors among the few indoor places where tobacco and vaping products may be used.

Smoking or vaping cannabis in a Colorado hotel room breaks the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act. House Bill 19-1076, in effect since 1 Jul 2019, added hotel and motel rooms to the indoor areas where smoking is banned and repealed the old exception that let a hotel keep up to 25% of its rooms for smokers (CRS 25-14-204(1)(dd), 25-14-205). The act defines smoking to include any lighted or heated plant product meant for inhalation, marijuana included, and the use of an electronic smoking device (CRS 25-14-203(16)).

Denver's guidance spells out the result. Hotel operators cannot allow smoking inside hotel rooms under the act, and city law prohibits marijuana consumption on a hotel balcony visible from any public place, the city's FAQ says. Its list of places where you cannot consume marijuana in the city names the common areas of buildings and hotel rooms, along with streets, parks and transportation facilities. Denver also notes that consuming openly and publicly is illegal across Colorado, and that any property owner can limit the use, possession and display of marijuana on its property.

So a Colorado hotel that markets itself to cannabis travelers still cannot offer a room where you may light up or vape. The Clean Indoor Air Act covers smoke and vapor, not eating, so outside Denver an edible in your room is a question for the hotel's rules. Inside Denver, the city's own list puts hotel rooms off limits for consuming marijuana of any kind. The legal places to smoke with others are the state's licensed hospitality businesses, covered in the lounge section below.

Arizona leaves the guest room to the hotel and bans smoking marijuana in the shared parts of the building. The state's adult-use law does not restrict a private business that occupies, owns or controls property from prohibiting or regulating marijuana there, and it does not allow anyone to smoke marijuana in a public place or open space (A.R.S. 36-2851). Public place borrows the Smoke-Free Arizona Act's definition, which names hotel and motel common areas along with bars, restaurants, retail stores and entertainment venues (A.R.S. 36-2850, 36-601.01).

Smoking marijuana in a public place or an open space, meaning a public park, sidewalk or walkway, is a petty offense (A.R.S. 36-2853), and a court may fine a petty offense up to $300 (A.R.S. 13-802). Smoking rooms do not change this. The Smoke-Free Arizona Act lets a hotel designate no more than half of its rented rooms as smoking rooms, but that act defines smoking as lighted tobacco, so the exception is about tobacco and a hotel remains free to keep marijuana out (A.R.S. 36-601.01, 36-2851).

The marijuana law defines smoke as inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying lighted marijuana, so vapes and edibles are not named in the public smoking ban (A.R.S. 36-2850). A hotel can still ban them under its own rules. There is no lounge to go to instead: a marijuana establishment license covers one retail store, one off-site grow and one off-site manufacturing site, with nothing for on-site consumption, and a dispensary's sales floor is a retail store, which the law treats as a public place (A.R.S. 36-2850, 36-601.01).

In Massachusetts a guest room is legal for cannabis only if the hotel allows it, and smoking there is the hardest case. The adult-use law lets whoever owns, occupies or manages a property ban or restrict cannabis there (M.G.L. c. 94G, s. 2(d)(1)), and the Cannabis Control Commission tells visitors staying at a hotel or rental to ask about its policy before consuming. The same law makes two things punishable by a civil fine of up to $100: consuming cannabis in a public place, and smoking it anywhere tobacco smoking is banned (c. 94G, s. 13(c)).

That second rule ties cannabis smoke to the Smoke-Free Workplace Law, which reaches hotels. Its definition of a residence leaves out hotels, motels, inns and bed and breakfasts, and it lets them allow smoking only in a guest room set aside as a smoking room, with signs on the door and inside, or on a whole floor set aside for smoking, where the halls and other shared areas stay smoke-free (M.G.L. c. 270, s. 22(a), (c)(3), (g)(1)). The law's own definition of smoking names tobacco products and e-cigarettes, not cannabis, and Chapter 94G is silent on whether a cannabis vape counts as smoking.

Boston goes further. The state law leaves cities free to restrict smoking more tightly (c. 270, s. 22(j)), and the Boston Public Health Commission's workplace regulation, as amended on 17 Dec 2015, lists just four exceptions to its smoking ban: private residences, retail tobacco stores, smoking on stage as part of a play, and religious rituals. Hotel rooms are not among them. The regulation also bans e-cigarettes in workplaces and defines them to cover any electronic device that relies on vaporizing a liquid or solid. The regulation never names hotels, but it defines a workplace as any part of a facility where an employee performs services, so on our reading no Boston hotel room is a place where smoking or vaping is allowed. Edibles sit outside the smoking rules, so in the room they depend on the hotel's policy; keep them out of lobbies, pools and hotel bars, where the public-consumption rule applies.

Michigan leaves the guest room to the hotel. The adult-use law allows anyone who owns, occupies or manages a property to prohibit or regulate marijuana use on it, and it gives no cover to anyone who smokes marijuana where that owner or manager forbids it (MCL 333.27954). Neither that law nor the state's smoking ban outlaws cannabis in a guest room as such, so in Detroit, as anywhere else in Michigan, the hotel's written policy decides whether you may use it in the room.

The statewide smoking ban is a tobacco law. Michigan's Smoke-Free Air Law defines smoking as burning a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or any other matter or substance that contains a tobacco product (MCL 333.12601), so it says nothing about smoking or vaping cannabis that contains no tobacco. Edibles get no automatic pass either: the owner's power covers consumption of any kind, not only smoking, so a hotel may ban gummies as readily as joints (MCL 333.27954).

Shared spaces are where the law bites. A lobby, hallway, pool, rooftop bar or hotel restaurant is open to other guests and the public, and the adult-use law does not authorize consuming marijuana in a public place, a term it leaves undefined (MCL 333.27954, 333.27953). An adult holding no more than the legal amount who uses it there faces a civil infraction: a fine of up to $100, and the marijuana is forfeited (MCL 333.27965). Michigan also licenses consumption lounges in towns that allow them, covered in the lounge section below.

Most Washington hotel rooms are closed to smoking by state law, and the rest are the hotel's call. The Smoking in Public Places law treats no less than 75% of a hotel's or motel's guest sleeping rooms as public places, and smoking is banned in public places; an intentional violation is punishable by a civil fine of up to $100 (RCW 70.160.020, 70.160.030, 70.160.070). Its definition of smoking covers any lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette or other lighted smoking equipment, with no reference to tobacco, so it reaches a lit joint.

The cannabis law itself turns on public view. Opening a package of cannabis or consuming it in view of the general public or in a public place is a class 3 civil infraction, which carries at most $50 plus statutory assessments (RCW 69.50.445, 7.80.120). The public place definition it borrows from the liquor code lists the lobbies, halls and dining rooms of hotels but not guest rooms (RCW 66.04.010), so a closed room is not public by default, while a balcony or pool deck where others can see you may be. Lighting up within 25 feet of a smoke-free building's entrances, exits, opening windows or air intakes is also banned, so the hotel's front door is no fix (RCW 70.160.075).

Vapes and edibles fall outside the lighted-equipment definition. Whether vaping cannabis in one of the smoke-free rooms breaks another state law is a question the sources we read do not answer, and we did not read a Seattle or King County hotel rule, so follow the hotel's own policy for both. Washington has no consumption lounges and no delivery, as the sections below explain, so a private residence where the owner agrees is the dependable place to use what you buy.

On our reading of Ohio law, a hotel room is not a legal place to smoke or vape cannabis. The cannabis law as rewritten by Senate Bill 56, effective 20 Mar 2026, allows adult-use marijuana to be smoked, combusted or vaporized only on privately owned real property used primarily for residential or agricultural purposes, and it carves out nothing for hotels, motels or inns (R.C. 3796.06(C)(2)). The same section also forbids smoking or vaping marijuana in any public place or place of employment as the Smoke-Free Workplace Act uses those terms, and a place of employment there is any enclosed area employees use for work, whether or not anyone is working at the time (R.C. 3796.06(C)(3)(d), 3794.01(C)).

No Ohio statute, rule or agency page we read addresses cannabis in hotel rooms directly, so this is a reading of the text, not a stated rule. A designated smoking room does not change it. Under the Smoke-Free Workplace Act a lodging facility may designate up to 20% of its sleeping rooms as smoking rooms, but the cannabis law takes only that act's definitions of public place and place of employment and leaves its exemptions behind (R.C. 3794.03(B), 3796.06(C)(3)(d)). Smoking or vaping away from a home or farm, or in a workplace, is a minor misdemeanor, and the fine can reach $150 (R.C. 3796.99(B), 2929.28).

Edibles turn on a different rule. Ohio bars consuming cannabis in any form in a public place, meaning an enclosed area the public is invited into, such as a lobby, hotel restaurant or bar, and bars anyone running one from knowingly permitting it (R.C. 3796.04(C), 3794.01(B)). A rented guest room is not a space the public is invited into, so it is unclear that state law reaches an edible eaten there, though the hotel can still make a ban part of the terms of your stay. Ohio also requires edibles to be stored in their original packaging except while actually in use (R.C. 3796.06(H)), and it has no lounges and no adult-use delivery.

Connecticut writes its hotel rule into the cannabis law, and the rule cuts both ways. A hotel, motel or similar lodging cannot stop a guest from legally possessing or consuming cannabis in a nonpublic area, which protects an edible, drink, tincture or capsule in your room, but it is required to ban cannabis smoking and the use of cannabis vaporizers and vapor products everywhere on the property (Conn. Gen. Stat. 21a-422l). A balcony, or a room the hotel calls a smoking room, does not change that.

The state smoking law points the same way. Smoking is banned in every guest room a lodging operator offers, as well as in restaurants, bars and retail areas the public uses, a companion section applies the same list to electronic cannabis devices and vapor products, and either violation is an infraction (Conn. Gen. Stat. 19a-342, 19a-342a). Lobbies, pools, hotel restaurants and bars are shared with other guests and the public, so they are probably outside the protection for nonpublic areas. How a hotel enforces its smoking ban is not spelled out in the statute.

Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun may follow different rules. Foxwoods Resort Casino belongs to and is run by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, the Mohegan Tribe created Mohegan Sun, and Connecticut law authorizes the Governor to enter compacts or agreements with each tribe on cannabis possession, use and delivery on its land (Conn. Gen. Stat. 21a-422j). We found nothing about cannabis on either resort's public pages and could not read a compact or tribal cannabis code, so ask the resort before you go. On tribal land federal law also applies, and under it adult-use marijuana is still Schedule I.

In these five states a smoke-free law keeps most hotel rooms closed to smoke and lets a hotel set aside a capped share of rooms where smoking is allowed. Each law reaches cannabis vapor as well as smoke, so outside a designated room a joint or a vape pen breaks state law, and inside one the hotel's own cannabis policy still has the last word, subject in New Mexico to the regulator's limit described below. The cap is 10% of rooms in New Mexico, 20% in New Jersey and 25% in Illinois, Maryland and Oregon, and none of the five requires a hotel to offer smoking rooms at all.

New Jersey puts its cap in the cannabis law itself: whoever owns or controls a hotel, motel or other lodging may permit smoking, vaping or aerosolizing cannabis in up to 20% of its guest rooms (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10a). The same section keeps cannabis smoke out of every indoor public place, even one where tobacco smoking is legal, which covers Atlantic City's casino floors, and it lets casino hotels forbid cannabis in any form, edibles included. Neither the Casino Control Commission nor the Division of Gaming Enforcement has guidance for guests that we could find, so each resort's house rules apply.

Illinois counts lobbies and no less than 75% of the guest rooms in a hotel, motel, inn or similar lodging as public places, allows no more than 25% to be smoking rooms, and defines smoking to take in lighted weed or herbs and electronic cigarettes (410 ILCS 82/10, 82/35). Its cannabis law bans smoking cannabis wherever that act bans smoking and lets a hotel prohibit cannabis altogether (410 ILCS 705/10-35), and in Chicago, using cannabis in a lobby, pool or hotel bar costs $50 the first time (Chicago Municipal Code 7-24-099). Maryland's Clean Indoor Air Act names cannabis in its definitions of smoking and vaping and exempts guest rooms only while no more than 25% of a hotel's rooms are used for smoking (Md. Code, Health-General 24-501, 24-505); the Maryland Cannabis Administration says most hotels do not let guests smoke cannabis in their rooms.

Oregon's Indoor Clean Air Act treats cannabinoids as inhalants and lets the person in charge of a hotel designate up to 25% of its sleeping rooms for smoking, aerosolizing or vaporizing them; breaking the act can draw a civil penalty of up to $500 a day for each violation (ORS 433.835, 433.850, 433.855). New Mexico's Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act treats e-cigarette vapor and lit or heated cannabis as smoking, and a hotel may designate no more than 10% of the rooms it rents to guests as smoking rooms; a first violation can bring a fine of up to $100 (NMSA 24-16-3, 24-16-12(H), 24-16-18).

Shared spaces are off limits for smoking in all five. Maryland's fine for smoking cannabis in a public place is up to $50 the first time and up to $150 for any later finding (Md. Code, Criminal Law 5-601); Oregon's cannabis law lists hotel hallways and lobbies as public places, where any use is a Class B violation (ORS 475C.009, 475C.377); and New Mexico sets a $50 civil penalty for smoking in a place the public can reach, which takes in lobbies, restaurants and bars (NMSA 26-2C-2, 26-2C-26). New Mexico's Cannabis Control Division goes further, saying all consumption, edibles included, belongs at a private residence or in a licensed lounge, and the statute does not say whether a hotel room can count as a residence.

Minnesota leaves the guest room to the hotel. Its Clean Indoor Air Act, which counts cannabis and electronic delivery devices as smoking, exempts hotel and motel sleeping rooms rented to guests, and the cannabis law allows use on private property the public cannot generally enter, as long as the owner has not forbidden it (Minn. Stat. 144.413, 144.4167, subd. 3, 342.09, subd. 1). A no-smoking or no-cannabis rule in the hotel's terms therefore controls. Smoking and vaping stay banned in lobbies, restaurants, bars, pools and public hallways, which count as indoor public places or workplaces (Minn. Stat. 144.414).

Two more Minnesota rules can apply. Duluth's code bans cannabis use in any place of public accommodation, a term defined to take in accommodation facilities offered to the public, unless the site holds an on-site consumption license, and it does not say how that applies to a rented room (Duluth City Code 8A-3, 8A-7). A vacation rental in an apartment or condominium building falls under the state ban on smoking or vaping adult-use cannabis anywhere in multifamily housing, balconies and patios included, which can bring a $250 civil fine (Minn. Stat. 342.56, subd. 1).

Under Missouri's constitution, a business may ban or restrict marijuana consumption on private property it owns, leases, occupies or manages, so a hotel may keep it out of rooms (Mo. Const. art. XIV, s. 2.3(4)). No state law we read bans marijuana in a closed guest room or says whether one counts as a public place. The state's indoor smoking law is built around burning tobacco and caps designated smoking areas at 30% of a public place's space, and the constitution leaves room for laws banning marijuana smoking wherever tobacco smoking is banned (RSMo 191.765, 191.767; art. XIV, s. 2.3(1)(h)).

We could not read the St. Louis or Kansas City smoke-free ordinances, so in those cities, as in Branson and at Lake of the Ozarks, the hotel's written policy is the rule to plan around. Smoking marijuana in a lobby, by the pool or in a hotel bar can bring the civil penalty the constitution sets for smoking in a public place, up to $100 (art. XIV, s. 2.10(4)), while an edible escapes the smoking rules but not the hotel's own ban.

These four states allow medical use only, so a guest without that state's card or license has no legal way to use cannabis in a hotel room, because possession is itself an offense. Possessing up to 20 grams of plant cannabis is a first-degree misdemeanor in Florida, up to 30 grams a misdemeanor in Pennsylvania and up to 2 ounces a Class B misdemeanor in Texas, and in Oklahoma marijuana held without an OMMA license counts as a controlled dangerous substance (Fla. Stat. 893.13(6); 35 P.S. 780-113(a)(31); Tex. Health and Safety Code 481.121; 63 O.S. 2-402). Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas do not accept other states' cards. Oklahoma is the exception for visitors: OMMA issues a 30-day out-of-state license, applied for online, to a patient whose card comes from another state's government, and Texas patients do not qualify because Texas has no state card (63 O.S. 420(F)).

Two Florida laws narrow a patient's options in a hotel. Smoking marijuana in an enclosed indoor workplace falls outside medical use, and the Clean Indoor Air Act uses that term for any enclosed place where people work; the same act bans vaping any substance there, with an exception for guest rooms the management has designated for smoking or vaping (Fla. Stat. 381.986(1)(k)6, 386.203(5), 386.204, 386.2045(4)). The medical law also preserves every property owner's ability to limit smoking or vaping marijuana (Fla. Stat. 381.986(15)(d)). At Walt Disney World, the property rules put marijuana on the prohibited list and add a room-recovery fee when guests smoke in a Disney Resort hotel room or on its balcony or patio. In a lobby, pool, bar or restaurant, a patient commits a first-degree misdemeanor by using any marijuana other than low-THC cannabis, and only low-THC cannabis not in a form for smoking counts as medical use there (Fla. Stat. 381.986(1)(k)5, (12)(c)).

Pennsylvania bans smoking medical marijuana anywhere, so the Clean Indoor Air Act's allowance for smoking rooms, up to 25% of a lodging's rooms, does not help a patient (35 P.S. 10231.304; Clean Indoor Air Act, section 3). Dry leaf is sold only to be vaporized (28 Pa. Code 1141a.21), and a patient who vaporizes or uses oils or pills is still bound by the hotel's own rules, since Pennsylvania has no statute on medical marijuana in guest rooms. Cannabis bought legally in New Jersey or New York is unlawful to hold in a Pennsylvania hotel, and Philadelphia also fines smoking it in a lobby, bar or pool area $100 (Philadelphia Code 10-2101, 10-2102).

Oklahoma gives a licensed patient a narrow right in hotels. A business owner may forbid smoking or vaping medical marijuana anywhere on its premises, indoors and within 10 feet of an entrance, yet a patient keeps the right to use lawful products that involve neither, such as edibles and tinctures (63 O.S. 427.8(C)). The state smoking law lets lodgings allow tobacco smoking in up to 25% of guest rooms, an exemption limited to tobacco, and marijuana smoke and vapor are banned in lobbies, restaurants, hallways and other enclosed areas open to the public (63 O.S. 1-1522, 1-1523). A casino resort that a tribal nation runs on its own land adds tribal and federal law to the state rules.

Texas leaves no room for smoke at all. Smoking is never medical use, and vaping counts only when a physician has prescribed inhalation as medically necessary (Tex. Occupations Code 169.001, 169.006). A registered Texas patient may keep prescribed low-THC cannabis in a hotel room under the possession exemption (Tex. Health and Safety Code 481.111(e)), but the program does not oblige any hotel to permit its use, and only permanent Texas residents can be prescribed it (Tex. Occupations Code 169.003). Hemp products that meet the state's hemp rules are legal to possess, but no law makes a hotel allow them either (Tex. Health and Safety Code 443.201).

A vape counts as smoking under the laws of California, New York, Colorado and Ohio. California's Proposition 64 counts an electronic smoking device as smoking, New York's Penal Law bans smoking or vaping cannabis wherever its smoking article applies, Colorado's Clean Indoor Air Act includes electronic smoking devices in its definition, and Ohio applies the same place limit to vaporizing as to smoking (HSC 11362.3, Penal Law 222.10, CRS 25-14-203(16), R.C. 3796.06(C)(2)). Arizona's cannabis definition and Washington's smoking law cover lighted products only, Michigan's smoking law covers tobacco only, and the Massachusetts cannabis law does not say whether vaping is smoking (A.R.S. 36-2850, RCW 70.160.020, MCL 333.12601, M.G.L. c. 94G, s. 13(c)). Nevada's regulator says you cannot use cannabis in any public place, which covers every form, a vape pen included.

Edibles avoid the smoke-free laws but not the public-place bans or the house rules. California bars eating cannabis in a public place, Nevada's regulator bars using it in one, and Massachusetts, Michigan, Washington and Ohio law also bar consuming it in public places, which in Ohio means enclosed ones, so an edible in the lobby or a hotel bar is a problem in all six of those states (HSC 11362.3, CCB guidance, M.G.L. c. 94G, s. 13(c), MCL 333.27954, RCW 69.50.445, R.C. 3796.04(C)). Inside the room, California, Arizona, Massachusetts and Michigan law and Nevada and Denver guidance all let a property owner prohibit cannabis on its property, and some hotels do so in writing: Virgin Hotels Las Vegas names ingesting, oils and lotions in its ban.

Hotels set their own fees. The STRAT says any smoking in a non-smoking room brings a cleaning fee, and Downtown Grand says smoking in one of its non-smoking rooms brings a fee; each hotel sets the amount in its own terms. A lodging business that calls itself '420-friendly' is making its own marketing claim, not a legal one. It cannot override the smoke-free laws in California, Colorado and Connecticut, Ohio's rule confining smoking and vaping to homes and farms, the caps on smoking rooms in Washington, Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, New Jersey and New Mexico, the possession laws that apply to guests without a medical card in Florida, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Texas, or the common-area bans everywhere, so ask for the written policy and check it against the state rules above.

Vapes are covered alongside smoke in seven more states. New Jersey's cannabis law names vaping and aerosolizing, Illinois counts electronic cigarettes as smoking, Maryland's clean indoor air law names cannabis vaping, Minnesota's covers cannabis and electronic delivery devices, Oregon's covers vaporized cannabinoids, New Mexico's counts e-cigarette vapor, and Connecticut has a parallel ban on cannabis vapor products (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10a, 410 ILCS 82/10, Md. Code, Health-General 24-501, Minn. Stat. 144.413, ORS 433.835, NMSA 24-16-3, Conn. Gen. Stat. 19a-342a). Missouri's indoor smoking law is written around burning tobacco (RSMo 191.765). Among the medical-only states, Florida bans vaping any substance in enclosed workplaces outside designated guest rooms, Oklahoma applies tobacco limits to vaped medical marijuana, Pennsylvania sells dry leaf only for vaporizing, and Texas allows vaping only on a physician's prescription (Fla. Stat. 386.204, 63 O.S. 427.8(L), 28 Pa. Code 1141a.21, Tex. Occupations Code 169.006).

For edibles, Connecticut and Oklahoma limit what a hotel can ban. No Connecticut hotel may ban lawful possession or use of cannabis in a nonpublic area (Conn. Gen. Stat. 21a-422l), and Oklahoma's law keeps a licensed patient's right to non-smoked, non-vaped products even where an owner bans smoke (63 O.S. 427.8(C)). New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico and Minnesota law let an owner ban cannabis on its property, so a hotel's written ban on edibles applies there (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10a, 410 ILCS 705/10-35, Mo. Const. art. XIV, s. 2.3(4), NMSA 26-2C-26, Minn. Stat. 342.09), and New Mexico's regulator limits every form of consumption to private residences and licensed consumption areas.

In California, yes in principle, if the hotel allows cannabis. The Department of Cannabis Control's rules let a delivery employee bring cannabis only to a physical address in California, never to an address on publicly owned land or in a building leased by a public agency; the bar extends to land held in trust for a tribe unless tribal law authorizes the delivery, and to K-12 schools, day care centers and youth centers (4 CCR 15416). The rules do not mention hotels, so a privately owned hotel is not excluded, but it can still bar cannabis on its property.

New York's rule is explicit about lodging. Deliveries may go to residential properties, including short and long-term residences, and to private businesses, but not to public buildings, parks, community centers, school grounds, day care centers, houses of worship or anyone inside a car (9 NYCRR 123.20). OCM says orders are prepaid, drivers take no cash, and each delivery needs an ID check and a signature. Nevada rules out the casino resorts: a store may not deliver to any location that holds a gaming license (NCCR 7.050, now NAC 678B.327, according to the CCB's index).

Colorado allows delivery only to a private residence, which excludes schools, college campuses, public property and commercial property such as offices or retail space (Rule 3-615). Denver's FAQ allows a hotel delivery only if the customer lives at the hotel and the hotel does not prohibit marijuana, so an ordinary stay does not qualify. Arizona's statute bars delivery to property owned or leased by the federal, state or local government or the Board of Regents, and lets cities and counties restrict it (A.R.S. 36-2854, 36-2857). Ask both the store and the hotel before you order.

Massachusetts, Michigan, Washington and Ohio leave little room for a hotel delivery. Massachusetts couriers and delivery operators may bring orders only to a residence, defined in the regulations as a house, condominium or apartment, a term that expressly excludes hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and other commercial hospitality operations (935 CMR 500.002, 500.145). Michigan's rule confines delivery by an approved store to a residential address, or the address of a licensed consumption establishment, given with the order, and the person receiving it must be 21 or older; it says nothing about hotels (Mich. Admin. Code R 420.207). Washington prohibits delivery to customers altogether (WAC 314-55-079), and Ohio's statute provides for delivery of medical marijuana alone, to registered patients and their caregivers (R.C. 3796.20(A)(1)(e)). Stores in Michigan, Washington and Ohio may take an order online for pickup at the store (R 420.207a, LCB guidance, OAC 1301:18-8-02).

Oregon and Illinois rule out a hotel delivery. Oregon's rule limits delivery to a residence and expressly excludes hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts (OAR 845-025-2880), and Illinois lets no dispensary deliver to purchasers at all, though since 12 Jun 2026 stores may offer pickup or a drive-through window (410 ILCS 705/15-70, 15-85). Maryland lets only micro dispensaries deliver to adult-use customers, to residences and medical facilities, and its rules define a residence as a house, apartment or other dwelling that is legally in the person's possession, without mentioning hotels, so do not count on one (COMAR 14.17.01.01, 14.17.12.03). New Jersey allows delivery to a residence, including a temporary residence, but neither the law nor the rules define a temporary residence, so ask the store whether a hotel room qualifies (N.J.S.A. 24:6I-44, N.J.A.C. 17:30-14.8).

Missouri, New Mexico, Minnesota and Connecticut leave the door open, on conditions. Missouri dispensaries may deliver to any address that allows legal possession, and a hotel that bans cannabis can refuse the delivery (19 CSR 100-1.140(3); Mo. Const. art. XIV, s. 2.3(4)). New Mexico couriers deliver to the address the store provides after an electronic ID check and must hand the order to the intended recipient; the New Mexico Register shows no adoption of a 2025 proposal for residential-only delivery through its 6 Oct 2026 issue (16.8.2.40(N), 16.8.2.41 NMAC). Minnesota's rules do not bar hotel addresses but require payment in advance and an in-person handoff to the named customer after a photo ID check (Minn. R. 9810.2600). Connecticut's delivery rules do not mention hotels and require the driver to confirm that the person accepting an order is the one who placed it, so a front desk cannot sign for you (DCP Policies and Procedures 21a-421j-37).

Among the medical-only states, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma bar dispensary delivery altogether (28 Pa. Code 1161a.27(e)(3); OAC 442:10-5-16(c)). Florida treatment centers may deliver only to registered patients and caregivers, and nothing in the statute restricts the delivery address to a home, so a patient's hotel drop-off depends on the center and the hotel (Fla. Stat. 381.986(8)(g)). Texas dispensing organizations deliver only to registered patients, and prescriptions are limited to permanent residents, so a tourist's hotel is out of reach (Tex. Health and Safety Code 487.107; Tex. Occupations Code 169.003).

Las Vegas has the clearest option. The Cannabis Compliance Board's list, current as of 1 Sep 2026, shows three licensed consumption lounges: Dazed! at 2548 W Desert Inn Rd, Society at 4640 Paradise Rd and Smoke and Mirrors at 2975 Sammy Davis Jr Dr. The board says customers must buy what they consume from the lounge, that cannabis obtained outside it is prohibited, that unfinished products cannot go home and that alcohol is neither sold nor consumed there.

In California a city or county may allow consumption on a licensed store's premises if the area is limited to adults 21 and older, hidden from public view and free of alcohol and tobacco (Business and Professions Code 26200 as enacted by Proposition 64, now subdivision (g), which the DCC's rules reference). In San Francisco, Moe Greens on Market Street says it runs a consumption lounge, and its posted rules require a purchase and bar tobacco, alcohol and outside cannabis. The DCC lists its retail license, C10-0000427-LIC, as active on 16 Oct 2026; the lounge description is the shop's own, and we could not read the city's permit records.

Colorado licenses hospitality businesses with state and local approval, and House Bill 19-1230 made smoking marijuana inside them an exception to the Clean Indoor Air Act. Denver issues three types: one where you bring your own, one where you buy on site and may not bring your own, and mobile premises in a vehicle. The Marijuana Enforcement Division's list updated 1 Oct 2026 shows eight hospitality business licenses, six at Denver addresses. New York law provides on-site consumption licenses (Cannabis Law 77, Public Health Law 1399-q), but OCM still lists on-site consumption among license windows that are only anticipated, so no one can apply for one yet.

Michigan licenses designated consumption establishments, commercial premises where adults 21 and older may use cannabis at the licensed address, and only towns that opt in may have them (Mich. Admin. Code R 420.1, R 420.21; MCL 333.27956). The Cannabis Regulatory Agency counted 5 active licenses statewide on 28 Feb 2026, in the newest monthly report we could read, and Detroit's ordinance caps the city at 15 lounge licenses plus 15 equity lounge licenses, a ceiling rather than a count of open venues (Ordinance No. 2022-11, Sec. 20-6-34). No primary source we read ties the five licenses to addresses, so run the agency's Verify a License search for the designated consumption establishment type before you go.

Massachusetts has rules but no venues. Social consumption regulations took effect on 2 Jan 2026, yet the Cannabis Control Commission says no establishment is licensed, and on 16 Oct 2026 its zoning tracker showed no city or town, Boston included, as opted in (935 CMR 500.141; M.G.L. c. 94G, s. 3(b)). Washington makes it a class C felony to run a cannabis club or any public place where consumption is permitted (RCW 69.50.465), and Ohio law creates no lounge license, so in those two states the legal option for a group is a private residence where the owner agrees.

New Jersey and New Mexico have licensed places to consume. A New Jersey consumption area sits on a licensed dispensary's premises and needs a state endorsement and town approval (N.J.S.A. 24:6I-21); on 16 Oct 2026 the Cannabis Regulatory Commission's list showed five, at High Rollers and SunnyTien in Atlantic City, Gynsyng in Merchantville, URB'N in Newark and Xena NJ in Jersey City, though we did not confirm that each is open. New Mexico licenses consumption areas on licensed premises, Type I for products that are not inhaled and Type II for inhaled ones too, and the Cannabis Control Division's licensing data listed 27 consumption-area activities as of 3 Sep 2026, while its portal's home page showed 28 (NMSA 26-2C-2, 16.8.2.49 NMAC).

Minnesota lets businesses with an on-site consumption endorsement serve edibles and hemp drinks, but the state's Office of Cannabis Management bars smoking and vaping at retail locations that allow on-site consumption (Minn. Stat. 342.28, subd. 10; OCM). Illinois leaves lounges to local governments, and we found no Chicago authorization as of 16 Oct 2026 (410 ILCS 705/55-25). Maryland's regulator says it has awarded no on-site consumption licenses, Missouri has no state lounge license and leaves any approval to local authorities (Mo. Const. art. XIV, s. 2.5(6), 2.10(4)), Oregon and Connecticut license no on-site consumption (OAR 845-025-1230; Conn. Gen. Stat. 21a-420), and Florida, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Texas license no lounges (Fla. Stat. 381.986; 35 P.S. 10231.601; 63 O.S. 427.14; Tex. Health and Safety Code 487.001).