Can your HOA stop you from using marijuana? What about when it’s medically necessary? In this HOA Q&A, attorney Michael Kushner explains how California law treats marijuana use in HOA communities, and why context matters when it comes to enforcement.
🎯 What You’ll Learn in This HOA Q&A:
✅ When HOAs can ban smoking marijuana—even for medical use.
✅ Why shared walls and ventilation systems make a difference.
✅ When a total ban might be unreasonable in single-family homes.
✅ How medical necessity may support a request for reasonable accommodation under disability laws.
Michael breaks down how marijuana rules work in attached vs. detached housing—and when an HOA may be going too far.
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About:
Michael Kushner is the attorney who pioneered this niche area of the law—representing homeowners in disputes with their HOAs—in California. He created and taught the systems now used by the biggest law firms in the state focused on HOA litigation. Through his firm, MBK Chapman, and now through HOA HELL, Kushner continues to give homeowners practical legal tools to fight back.
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