Growing at Home
ORC 3796.04 — the plant count, and the line it sits behind
Ohio's adult use law allows home cultivation within a plant count, at a residence, by an adult of qualifying age. The count is per adult and per household, and the household figure is not a multiple of the individual one without limit.
Who handles this in Ohio: Ohio State Bar Association lawyer referral; and legal aid programs and the state offices, listed in the Ohio directory.
| Limit | Figure |
|---|---|
| LimitPlants per adult | Figure6 |
| LimitPlants per household, however many adults live there | Figure12 |
Over the count is not a smaller version of the same thing. Cultivation above what the adult use law permits falls back into the drug chapter, where illegal manufacture and cultivation of marihuana is its own offense graded by amount. The step from inside the allowance to outside it is a step between two different statutes rather than a matter of degree.
Two conditions travel with the allowance and are the ones most often missed. The cultivation has to be at the person's residence, and it has to be out of public view and secured against access by anybody under the qualifying age.
A landlord may restrict what happens in a rental by the terms of the lease, and an allowance in the Revised Code is not a term of a tenancy. What the lease says is a separate question from what the statute permits, and the sections on renting cover it.
Sources for this section (2)
- ORC 3796.04 — Home grow: six plants per adult and twelve per residence, and no consumption in a public place
- ORC 2925.04 — Illegal manufacture of drugs, and cultivation of marihuana
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of September 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Ohio attorney.