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Residents living in condominiums and high-rises are among those most likely to find themselves in a cloud of unwanted smoke. In many cases, though, existing regulations are enough to stop the practice if it becomes an ongoing nuisance.
In short, it is not open season with respect to marijuana smoke in community associations. A lot of people think that just because it’s legal to smoke marijuana in Nevada, they can smoke it wherever they want to, whenever they want to.
But homeowners associations, particularly those whose governing documents were written in the 1990s or later, routinely lay out smoking and nonsmoking areas and spell out controls. Those restrictions were originally written to apply to tobacco, but they can be used just as effectively against nuisance marijuana smoke.
Even in older communities where association governing documents were drafted several decades ago, rules addressing unlawful behavior or nuisances could come into play.
A lot of association governing documents prohibit anything that’s unlawful. In Nevada, it is still unlawful to expose others to marijuana smoke publicly, so you’re going to have that general restriction that’s going to prohibit them from doing that. Most governing documents have nuisance restrictions, and in a lot of situations, marijuana smoke may constitute a nuisance. It may depend upon how much smoke is getting through, who’s being affected by it and how they’re being affected.