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AZ Arizona Adult-Use & Medical
State Compliance Guide

Arizona
Cannabis Packaging Requirements

Arizona cannabis packaging is regulated by the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), Bureau of Marijuana Licensing. The market is adult-use & medical. Packaging must be child-resistant, must carry the state universal symbol, and must print 2 required warning statements. No pre-approval of artwork is required. Royal Supply last reviewed this guide against the regulation on September 1, 2026.

2Required Warnings
YesChild-Resistant
NoPre-Approval Needed
September 1, 2026Last Reviewed
Official symbol available from the state agencySTATE SYMBOLVIA OFFICIAL AGENCY
No public artwork download — obtain via the state agency
01 — The Mark

Universal Symbol Requirements

Symbol Specifications

SymbolArizona product QR code. No state cannabis symbol.
Minimum SizeNo state minimum. The code must only be consumer scannable.
  • House minimum for the QR code: 1 in x 1 in.
  • Optional identifier mark, house size: 0.52 in x 0.75 in (13.27 mm x 19.3 mm).
Notes on this section — 1
  • Both figures are Royal Supply house specs, not Arizona minimums.
ColorsNo colors specified by the state.
  • Print dark ink on a light field with clear contrast.
  • Keep a quiet zone around the code so it scans first try.
PlacementNo panel specified by the state.
  • House practice: front of pack or principal display panel.
  • Moving it to another panel is a design choice, not a reprint trigger.
How To ObtainGenerate the QR code yourself, one per product.
  • Point it at the product information webpage you host.
  • Required webpage content, including the pregnancy sentence, is set by rule.
  • No state-issued artwork exists to download.

A scannable QR code is the only graphic Arizona requires.

  • Adult-use: QR code linking to the state product information webpage.
  • Medical: no QR code required.
  • No Arizona cannabis symbol exists — the label list is closed.
Notes on this section — 1
  • A small cannabis identifier mark alongside the code is a Royal Supply option, not a requirement.

Official Files & Links

⬇AZ — QR code required per A.R.S. 36-2854.01 (generated per product). Cannabis leaf symbol also required.

Design & Print Specs

PlacementPrincipal display panel or front; QR code 1"×1" min
Bold RequiredNo

QR code must be scannable; test on final print stock.

02 — Say It Exactly

Warning Statements (2)

These must appear verbatim. Use the copy buttons to pull exact text into your artwork files. Anything marked otherwise is our recommendation and is not required by Arizona.

Product
Same warning statements on every product type — this state does not vary them.
Market
Format
Options
Your warning block 
—
See every statement individually, with citations2
On-package label1
Arizona prescribes the words but sets no font size or minimum type height. The opening eight words are part of the mandated block — labels that start at "WARNING:" are short of the rule.
All cannabis products — adult-use and medical
Exact text required

Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), Bureau of Marijuana Licensing prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES' WARNING: Marijuana use can be addictive and can impair an individual's ability to drive a motor vehicle or operate heavy machinery. Marijuana smoke contains carcinogens and can lead to an increased risk for cancer, tachycardia, hypertension, heart attack, and lung infection. Marijuana use may affect the health of a pregnant woman and the unborn child. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN
QR-linked webpage1
Do not reserve panel space for this. It is required content on the state-mandated product webpage behind the QR code, and printing it on the label is optional.
Adult-use products — must appear on the webpage the required QR code links to, not on the package
Exact text required

Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), Bureau of Marijuana Licensing prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

Using marijuana during pregnancy could cause birth defects or other health issues to your unborn child
03 — The Fine Print

Packaging & Labeling Rules

Child-ResistantCannabis has to leave the dispensary in child-resistant packaging, but Arizona names no test standard for it.
  • Adult-use: dispense the product in child-resistant packaging.
  • Arizona's own test: significantly difficult for children under five to open.
  • No ASTM, CPSC or PPPA standard is named anywhere in Arizona's rules.
  • Certified child-resistant stock clears Arizona's bar comfortably and is a safe spec.
  • Medical rules carry no child-resistant packaging requirement of their own.
Notes on this section — 1
  • Do not tell a reviewer that Arizona requires ASTM or CPSC certification. It does not.
A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(3); A.R.S. 36-2850 (definition of child-resistant)
LabelingArizona runs two closed label lists, one adult-use and one medical. Anything not on the list is your choice.
  • Adult-use: marijuana establishment license number.
  • Adult-use: amount, strain and batch number.
  • Adult-use: form of the product.
  • Adult-use: weight where applicable.
  • Adult-use: potency from a licensed testing facility — total THC and total CBD, plus any other cannabinoid the label makes an effects claim about.
  • Adult-use: the full ADHS warning block, verbatim.
  • Marijuana products: ingredients listed in order of abundance.
  • Adult-use: the consumer-scannable QR code.
  • Medical adds the qualifying patient registry ID number.
  • Medical adds the cultivation or manufacture source.
  • Medical adds a date — of manufacture, harvest or sale.
  • Medical adds the percentage of ethanol, on any product that contains ethanol.
  • Medical labels carry no QR code.
  • Not required: expiration date, servings-per-package count, dispensary trade name.
  • House style: solids in ounces plus grams, liquids by volume.
  • House style: potency as mg/g for solids and mg/mL for liquids.
Notes on this section — 2
  • The house style lines are Royal Supply design-sheet practice, not Arizona requirements.
  • The adult-use list carries no date element on the package. Harvest and manufacture dates go on the QR webpage instead. Medical is the opposite — a date is a printed element there, and there is no webpage.
A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(2)(a) through (h) — adult-use; A.A.C. R9-17-317(A) — medical
THC SymbolThere is no Arizona cannabis symbol. The only graphic the state requires is a QR code.
  • Adult-use: a consumer-scannable QR code to the state product information webpage.
  • No dimension, color or panel is specified for the code.
  • The adult-use label list is closed and contains no mark of any kind.
  • Medical labels require no QR code.
  • Optional house add: a small cannabis identifier mark beside the QR code.
Notes on this section — 2
  • The identifier mark is Royal Supply design work, not a rule. A label without it is compliant.
  • No Arizona statute or rule mentions a cannabis leaf mark or sets a size for one.
A.R.S. 36-2854.01; A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(2) (complete label content list, no symbol)
Health WarningsOne warning block prints on the package; one required sentence lives on the QR webpage instead.
  • Package: the full ADHS warning, verbatim. See the warnings section for the exact text.
  • Start the block at ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES' — beginning at WARNING: is short of the rule.
  • No font size or type-height minimum is set for the warning.
  • Medical labels carry the same ADHS warning.
  • Website only: the pregnancy sentence behind the QR code. Do not reserve panel space for it.
A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(2)(f) and (A)(2)(h)(ii); A.A.C. R9-17-317(A)(6); A.R.S. 36-2854.01(A)(7)
Serving SizeArizona regulates potency disclosure rather than serving size, and accepts either of two formats.
  • Potency must come from a licensed testing facility.
  • Format A: milligrams per designated unit.
  • Format B: percentage.
  • Either format satisfies the rule, and the choice covers every figure you print.
  • Two figures are always required: total THC and total CBD.
  • A third figure joins them for each additional cannabinoid the label makes a claim about — say CBN and how it affects the body, and CBN's potency has to be on the label too.
  • No servings-per-package count is required.
  • House style: mg/g for solids and mg/mL for liquids.
Notes on this section — 2
  • Budget panel space for the claimed-cannabinoid case at layout. A minor-cannabinoid brand story is what triggers it, and it is the marketing copy rather than the formulation that decides how many figures print.
  • Medical carries the same three-part potency rule as adult-use.
A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(2)(e) and Table 3.1; A.A.C. R9-17-317(A)(5)
Opaque PackagingArizona has no opacity rule at all, so clear and windowed stock is fully legal here.
  • No opacity, tint or view-blocking provision exists in Arizona rule.
  • Clear glass, clear tubes and window pouches are all permitted.
  • Container must not react with the product or leach into it.
  • Keep designs likely to appeal to children off the package.
  • House recommendation: opaque or translucent stock, particularly for flower.
Before you print
  • Keep child-appeal guidance on live artwork until ADHS or counsel confirms a package is outside the advertising rules.
Notes on this section — 3
  • Unconfirmed: whether a printed package counts as advertising in Arizona.
  • The advertising law in force since July 1, 2026 bans child-appealing imagery. A licensed establishment that breaks it faces ADHS disciplinary action, not the $20,000 civil penalty — that penalty reaches only people who are not licensees.
  • Child-appealing brand names are a separate rule that does reach the package, because it bans selling under such a name as well as advertising under it.
A.A.C. R9-18-309(B); no opacity provision in A.A.C. R9-18-310 or A.R.S. 36-2860; A.R.S. 36-2860(A)(3)
ResealableNeither tamper-evidence nor resealability is required in Arizona. Both are house recommendations.
  • Required: child-resistant packaging on exit, and nothing beyond that.
  • No tamper-evident seal is required.
  • No resealable closure is required.
  • House recommendation: tamper-evident sealing, for diversion and contamination disputes.
  • House recommendation: resealable closure on multi-use formats — a child-resistant pack that will not re-close stops being child-resistant after first open.
  • Both are additive. Adding or omitting them leaves you compliant either way.
A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(3)
Notable RulesArizona's best-known restriction is on the shape of the product, and its newest one covers ads rather than packages.
  • Products must not resemble a human, animal, insect, fruit, toy or cartoon character.
  • That governs the product form and the molds, not printed package graphics.
  • Brand names must not imitate food or drink brands marketed to children. This one bans selling under the name as well as advertising it, so it reaches the package directly.
  • Nothing on the package may be false or misleading.
  • Advertising since July 1, 2026 must carry: "Do not use marijuana if you are under twenty-one years of age or pregnant. Keep marijuana out of reach of children."
  • In print that warning takes at least 10% of the advertising area and prints black on white. On a billboard it is sized instead at 10% or more of the largest type in the ad.
  • Ads must not state potency or THC levels — the opposite of the package, where potency is a required element.
  • Ads: no toy, cartoon or animated-character imagery, no pictures of anyone consuming, and no placement on public transport, airports or shelters.
  • Electronic, social and website ads and sponsored events need an audience expected to be at least 73.6% over twenty-one.
  • The 1,000-foot school, park and childcare setback applies to billboards only, not to advertising generally.
Before you print
  • Until ADHS or counsel answers the packaging question, design labels as if the advertising imagery rules reach them.
Notes on this section — 3
  • Open question: Arizona defines advertising as any public communication in any medium that offers or solicits a commercial transaction in marijuana. Whether a printed package is such an offer has not been confirmed by ADHS or in a published opinion.
  • That question decides the imagery rules only. The child-appealing-name ban and the false-or-misleading ban apply to the package either way.
  • A licensee found in violation gets fourteen days from notification to comply, then ADHS disciplinary action. The $20,000 per-violation civil penalty reaches only non-licensees, and the attorney general enforces the section.
A.R.S. 36-2860(A)(1)-(3); A.R.S. 36-2859(C)-(E), (I)-(L) as amended by Laws 2025, Ch. 166, eff. 7-1-26; A.R.S. 36-2850(1) (definition of advertise)
04 — Quick Answers

Arizona Packaging FAQ

What universal symbol is required on cannabis packaging in Arizona?
Arizona requires the Arizona product QR code. No state cannabis symbol.. Minimum size: No state minimum. The code must only be consumer scannable. House minimum for the QR code: 1 in x 1 in. Optional identifier mark, house size: 0.52 in x 0.75 in (13.27 mm x 19.3 mm).. Placement: No panel specified by the state. House practice: front of pack or principal display panel. Moving it to another panel is a design choice, not a reprint trigger..
Is child-resistant packaging required in Arizona?
Cannabis has to leave the dispensary in child-resistant packaging, but Arizona names no test standard for it. Adult-use: dispense the product in child-resistant packaging. Arizona's own test: significantly difficult for children under five to open. No ASTM, CPSC or PPPA standard is named anywhere in Arizona's rules. Certified child-resistant stock clears Arizona's bar comfortably and is a safe spec. Medical rules carry no child-resistant packaging requirement of their own.
What warning statements are required on Arizona cannabis packaging?
Arizona prescribes exact wording for 2 warning statement(s). The verbatim text is listed on this page.
05 — Receipts

Sources & Citations

  • A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(2)(a)-(h) — Adult use marijuana labeling; complete label content list
  • A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(3) — child-resistant packaging on dispensing
  • A.A.C. R9-18-309(B) — container must not react with or leach into the product
  • A.A.C. R9-17-317(A) — Medical marijuana labeling requirements
  • A.R.S. 36-2854.01 — consumer-scannable QR code and required product webpage content
  • A.R.S. 36-2860 — packaging and product form restrictions
  • A.R.S. 36-2850 — definitions, including child-resistant and advertise
  • A.R.S. 36-2859 as amended by Laws 2025, Ch. 166 — marijuana advertising warning, effective July 1, 2026
  • A.A.C. R9-18-310(A)(2)(e) and A.A.C. R9-17-317(A)(5) — potency disclosure, both programs
  • A.A.C. R9-17-317(A)(9)(b) and (A)(10) — medical ethanol percentage and date element
  • 9 A.A.C. 18 and 9 A.A.C. 17 (Arizona Administrative Code), Supp. 24-4, codified through December 31, 2024 — R9-18-310 unamended since November 1, 2024
  • Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), Bureau of Marijuana Licensing — azdhs.gov/licensing/marijuana/index.php — ADHS Bureau

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