Let’s clear the air about medical marijuana usage and your national parks.Sorry to kill your buzz, but the recently passed California state law which allows for limited recreational marijuana use, as well as the previous state law that legalized marijuana for medical purposes, has no bearing on federal laws and regulations.
Federal laws and regulations–including those in your Golden Gate National Recreation Area and other national park sites–continue to identify marijuana as a Schedule I illegal drug and prohibit its use.
Possession of marijuana or use of any amount of marijuana, even for medical purposes with a valid state medical marijuana card, is prohibited on national parkland, as well as its facilities, concessions, and campgrounds.
Violations are punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000 for an individual or $10,000 for an organization, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both (18 U.S.C. 3559 and 3571).
For park information, please call (415) 561-4700.
credit:parksconservancy.org
