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HI Hawaii Medical Only
State Compliance Guide

Hawaii
Cannabis Packaging Requirements

Hawaii cannabis packaging is regulated by the Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health. The market is medical only. Packaging must be child-resistant, must carries no state universal symbol, and must print 14 required warning statements. No pre-approval of artwork is required. Royal Supply last reviewed this guide against the regulation on September 1, 2026.

14Required 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

SymbolNone. Hawaii requires no symbol.
Minimum SizeNo symbol, so no symbol size. Type size is what Hawaii regulates.
  • Type: 1/16 inch minimum height, measured on the letter O.
  • Where both cases are used, measure the lower-case o.
  • Same 1/16 inch floor applies to text moved onto an insert.
  • All required information must read prominently and conspicuously.
ColorsBlack lettering on a white background only.
  • No pictures or graphics of any kind.
  • No carve-out for a logo or a symbol.
PlacementNot applicable - there is no symbol.
How To ObtainNothing to obtain. Hawaii issues no symbol artwork.
  • Label rules: HAR Chapter 11-850, via health.hawaii.gov/medicalcannabis.

No cannabis symbol, THC symbol, seal or mark exists in Hawaii.

  • Nothing to place on artwork.
  • A printed symbol is affirmatively non-compliant - the label rule bans pictures and graphics.
  • Do not carry a symbol across from another state's artwork.

Official Files & Links

No official downloadable artwork published — see symbol specs and the agency site.

Design & Print Specs

Symbol ColorsBlack on white ONLY
CMYK / PMSK:100 on K:0
PlacementProminently on all packaging
Bold RequiredNo

Most restrictive design rule of any state: black text ONLY on white background. Zero exceptions for color, images, or logos.

02 — Say It Exactly

Warning Statements (14)

Statements marked Exact text required must be reproduced character for character — use the copy buttons. Those marked Required content are mandated by Hawaii in substance only; you write the sentence.

Product
Market
Format
Options
Your warning block 
—
See every statement individually, with citations15
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product2
Must appear on the product label itself. Subsection (f)(1) does not permit (b)(9) to move to a package insert. This phrase is specific to Hawaii medical product and does not belong on an adult-use or out-of-state label.
All Hawaii medical dispensary product.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

For medical use only
All Hawaii medical dispensary product.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

Not for resale or transfer to another person
The eight required warnings, HAR 11-850-143(b)(10)8
Defaults to the product label; (f)(1) expressly permits it to move to labeling attached to or inserted into the package, at the same 1/16 inch minimum type size. The rule fixes the wording but imposes no order and does not use the word verbatim, so sequence is the licensee's choice.
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

This product may be unlawful outside of the State of Hawaii and is unlawful to possess or use under federal law
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product. Not limited to smokable or inhalable forms, unlike most states.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

Smoking is hazardous to your health
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

There may be health risks associated with consumption of this product
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

This product is not recommended for use by women who are pregnant or breast feeding
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

Cannabis can impair concentration, coordination, and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of cannabis
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product. Not limited to edibles, unlike the equivalent warning in most states.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

When eaten or swallowed, the effects of cannabis may be delayed by two or more hours
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

Keep out of the reach of children.
Manufactured cannabis products1
Manufactured product only - not on unprocessed flower. This replaces the loose 'This product contains cannabis' line we previously published, which is not a Hawaii requirement. No terminal period inside the quotation marks in the codified text. Defaults to the label; (f)(1) permits it to move to an attached or inserted labeling.
Every package of manufactured cannabis product. Does not apply to unprocessed cannabis.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

This product is a medication that contains cannabis and is not a food
Topicals and transdermals1
Not a general topical requirement and not required on any other product form. Not among the items (f)(1) permits to move to an insert, so it stays on the label.
Ointments, skin lotions and transdermal patches only.
Exact text required

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.

For external use only.
Every package of cannabis or manufactured cannabis product2
Split from the combined (b)(8) entry so the use-by date is not lost alongside it. Subject to the 1/16 inch type minimum.
All Hawaii medical dispensary product.
Required content — your wording

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health requires this information but does not fix the sentence. Write your own copy; the agency approves it.

Print instructions for use. Hawaii mandates the substance, not the sentence - write them in your own words.
All Hawaii medical dispensary product.
Required content — your wording

Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health requires this information but does not fix the sentence. Write your own copy; the agency approves it.

Print a use-by date. Format it however suits the artwork.
Royal Supply recommendations1
Optional, not a Hawaii requirement. Nothing in HAR Chapter 11-850 mandates contraindication or adverse-effect copy, a physician referral, or the words 'by registered qualifying patients'. We recommend it for a medical-only market, and Hawaii restricts pictures and color rather than extra words, so printing it is safe. It does not satisfy (b)(9) - 'For medical use only' must still appear in the rule's own wording.
Optional on any Hawaii medical dispensary product.
Royal Supply recommended

Not required by Office of Medical Cannabis Control & Regulation (OMCCR), HI Dept. of Health. This is Royal Supply's own compliance-tested language, offered as good practice.

For medical use only by registered qualifying patients. Contraindications and adverse effects may apply. Consult your physician.
03 — The Fine Print

Packaging & Labeling Rules

Child-ResistantEvery package is child-resistant. Not multi-serving packs, not edibles - every package of cannabis and of manufactured cannabis product.
  • Child-resistant special packaging on every package. There is no product-type or serving-count exception.
  • Flower jars and single-serving packs are covered too - the rule reaches all of them.
  • The standard is 16 C.F.R. part 1700, as published by the U.S. Government Publishing Office AS OF JANUARY 1, 2021.
  • The certification must be for the number of openings and closings customary for that package size and contents.
  • Give your closure supplier the January 1, 2021 date - a certificate written to a later edition is to a different text.
  • Packaging must also protect the product from contamination and impart no toxic or harmful substance.
  • Packaging must not be reactive, additive or absorptive so as to alter the safety, identity, strength, quality or purity of the product as labeled.
  • Manufactured products are packaged in their final packaging at the original point of manufacture - no repackaging downstream.
Notes on this section — 1
  • Earlier copy here limited this to multi-serving edible packages and carried no Hawaii citation. It was wrong in scope: 11-850-142(a)(1) applies to every package.
HAR 11-850-142(a)(1), (a)(3), (a)(4), (b); 16 C.F.R. part 1700 (as published as of January 1, 2021)
LabelingHawaii medical labels are text only: black type on white, no graphics at all, with a hard minimum type size.
  • Type: 1/16 inch minimum height, measured on the letter O, or the lower-case o where both cases are used.
  • The same 1/16 inch floor applies to any text moved onto a package insert.
  • Color: black lettering on a white background only.
  • No pictures or graphics of any kind. No carve-out for a logo or a symbol.
  • All required information must read prominently and conspicuously.
  • Every package: product name, contents and potency, and an ingredient statement.
  • Every package: dispensary license number and the name of the production center.
  • Every package: batch number and date of packaging.
  • Every package: date of harvest for cannabis, or date of manufacture for manufactured product.
  • Every package: tracking inventory identification number barcode from the tracking software.
  • Every package: instructions for use and a use-by date.
  • Every package: name of the laboratory that performed the analysis.
  • Manufactured products add: equivalent physical weight of the cannabis used to make the amount in the package.
  • Manufactured products add: extraction method, naming any solvents, gases, chemicals or compounds used.
  • Manufactured products add: the not-a-food statement.
  • Edibles add: net quantity per serving by weight, measure or count.
  • Edibles add: mg per serving of total THC and of any other cannabinoid named on the label.
  • Edibles add: mg per serving of delta-9-THCA, delta-9-THC, delta-8-THC and CBD, unless testing returns non-detect.
  • Edibles add: major food allergen statement - milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans, sesame.
  • Allergen exemption: highly refined oils from those allergens, and ingredients derived from those oils.
  • Ointments, skin lotions and transdermal patches add: For external use only. Those three forms only, not topicals generally.
  • Ingredient statement: all ingredients in order of prominence by weight, headed by the word Ingredients.
  • Botanicals, fungi and algae: use Herbs of Commerce, 3rd edition names, then the plant part, e.g. Cannabis flower or Cannabis (flower).
  • Plant part is not required for algae.
  • Latin binomial in parentheses, except where the name already appears in Herbs of Commerce, 3rd edition.
  • Topical cosmetic ingredients: use the names at 21 C.F.R. 701.3(c) as amended April 1, 2021.
  • May move to an insert: warnings A through G, the laboratory name, the extraction-method disclosure, and the not-a-food statement.
  • Keep out of the reach of children. must stay on the product label - it cannot move to an insert.
  • Anything else moves off the label only on a department finding that the package size cannot accommodate it.
  • Never print the words candy or candies on packaging or labeling - and the same ban runs to advertising, product lists and product menus.
  • Edibles may not be designed to resemble commercially available candy or other products marketed to children.
  • Edibles may not be in the shape of, or contain a depiction of, a human, animal or fruit - including artistic, caricature or cartoon renderings.
  • That shape rule binds the mould, not just the artwork. Check a die before you commit to it.
  • No organic claim unless USDA permits it under the Organic Foods Production Act.
  • No health or benefit claims that are unsubstantiated, false or misleading.
Before you print
  • Small-package relief is discretionary and not self-executing. Confirm the customer already holds the department's affirmative finding under 11-850-143(f)(2) before designing to it.
Notes on this section — 2
  • Chapter 11-850 governs the medical dispensary programme only. Hawaii has no operating adult-use market, so none of this transfers to an adult-use SKU.
  • Allowable edible types are a closed list of fifteen at 11-850-76(b): capsules, lozenges, pills, infused oils and butters, oil extracts and concentrates, tinctures, gummies, hard moulded confections, chocolates, cookies, brownies, honey, beverages, powdered beverage mixes or additives, and syrup beverage mixes or additives. Oils and butters may not contain garlic or peppers.
HAR 11-850-143(a) through (j), 11-850-144, 11-850-76(e); HRS 329D-9(c), 329D-11(a)(2)
THC SymbolNo symbol of any kind. Potency is disclosed as text only.
  • Every package: net weight in ounces and grams for solids, or volume for liquids.
  • Every package: concentration in mg per gram for solids, mg per mL for liquids, of total THC and of any other cannabinoid named on the label or packaging.
  • Every package: the same mg/g or mg/mL figures for delta-9-THCA, delta-9-THC, delta-8-THC and CBD, unless testing returns non-detect.
  • Edibles add: mg per serving of total THC and of any other cannabinoid named on the label.
  • Edibles add: mg per serving of delta-9-THCA, delta-9-THC, delta-8-THC and CBD, unless testing returns non-detect.
  • Labeled cannabinoid content must match the certificate of analysis and never exceed the dosage caps.
  • Do not carry another state's THC symbol onto Hawaii artwork - the graphics ban makes the label non-compliant.
HAR 11-850-143(b)(2), (d)(2), (d)(3), (j); 11-850-135
Health WarningsEight fixed warning statements, all of them on every product, in whatever order you like.
  • All eight warnings go on every package of cannabis and of manufactured cannabis product.
  • Wording is fixed. Do not paraphrase, and do not drop the in Keep out of the reach of children.
  • Smoking is hazardous to your health is required on non-smokable forms too - tinctures, edibles, topicals.
  • The delayed-onset warning is required on non-edibles too - flower, cartridges, topicals.
  • No prescribed order and no rotating-warning scheme. Sequence is the licensee's choice.
  • Warnings A through G may move to an attached or inserted labeling. H may not.
  • Set breast feeding as two words, as the rule does.
  • Also required, wording yours: instructions for use and a use-by date on every package.
Notes on this section — 3
  • Royal Supply's contraindication, adverse-effect and consult-your-physician copy is optional. Never present it to a customer as a state requirement.
  • Terminal punctuation: (A) through (G) carry no full stop inside the quotation marks; (H) does. Set them that way.
  • In the official compilation the closing quotation mark on (F) is missing. That is a typographical slip in the rule, not a difference in the required wording - the sentence ends at "under the influence of cannabis".
HAR 11-850-143(b)(8), (b)(10)(A) through (H)
Serving SizeHawaii caps THC per serving and per container, and it dictates how a multi-serving edible is portioned - which decides the pack format.
  • Edibles: 10 mg total THC maximum per dose, per serving, or per single wrapped item.
  • Edibles: 1,000 mg total THC maximum per pack or container.
  • Any manufactured product: 1,000 mg total THC maximum per pack or container, single-serving or multi-serving.
  • The 10 mg cap is not limited to capsules and lozenges - it covers all edible cannabis products.
  • Every edible must ship with one of three portioning aids, and the choice is a packaging decision.
  • Portioning aid option 1: single-serving packaging.
  • Portioning aid option 2: scoring that guides and assists breaking a multi-serving product into single-serving portions.
  • Portioning aid option 3: a measuring device designed, sized or clearly marked to measure a single serving.
  • Tinctures: two ounces maximum volume, and the label must state intended use measured in drops or dropperfuls.
  • That two-ounce ceiling is a container-size limit - it decides which bottle a tincture customer can buy.
  • Labeled potency must match the certificate of analysis and may never be labeled above these caps.
Notes on this section — 2
  • The statute states the caps more narrowly - 10 mg per dose for capsules, lozenges and pills, and 1,000 mg per multi-dose pack or per container of oils. Where they differ, the rule is broader and governs the design.
  • The portioning aid is the requirement people mistake for a resealability mandate. Hawaii has no resealability rule; it has this.
HAR 11-850-76(b)(6), 11-850-76(f), 11-850-76(g), 11-850-142(a)(5), 11-850-143(j); HRS 329D-11(b)
Opaque PackagingPackaging must be completely opaque - the product cannot be seen from outside.
  • No windows, clear panels or transparent film.
  • Applies to every package of cannabis and of manufactured cannabis product.
HAR 11-850-142(a)(2); HRS 329D-11(a)(1)
ResealableHawaii requires no resealability, for any product, at any serving count.
  • The word does not appear anywhere in HAR Chapter 11-850. There is no rule to design to.
  • Child-resistance is the closure requirement, and it applies to every package.
  • What Hawaii does control on a multi-serving edible is portioning, not resealing - see the serving-size row.
  • Royal Supply: a reseal is a reasonable feature to offer, but do not price it into a Hawaii quote as a compliance item.
Notes on this section — 1
  • Earlier copy here required multi-serving packages to be resealable and carried no citation. No such requirement exists.
HAR ch. 11-850 (no resealability provision); closure requirement at 11-850-142(a)(1)
Notable RulesHawaii is the most restrictive label design in the country: black on white, no graphics, no symbol. Plan a text-only label from the start.
  • There is no Hawaii universal cannabis symbol and no THC symbol. Nothing to place.
  • Never carry another state's symbol onto Hawaii artwork - the graphics ban makes the label non-compliant.
  • Medical only. For medical use only is Hawaii-specific and must not travel to another state's label.
  • Hemp enforcement began July 1, 2026, after the grace period ended June 30, 2026.
  • Hemp enforcement covers registration, allowable forms, cannabinoid limits, testing, and labeling and packaging. Noncompliant or mislabeled THC product may be seized.
  • Medical dispensary packaging rules are unchanged by the hemp enforcement.
  • Every package is child-resistant - a point often missed, because most states scope that to edibles.
Notes on this section — 2
  • All label and warning text on this page is now taken from the Department of Health's own compilation of Chapter 11-850 dated November 17, 2025, not from a law publisher.
  • Section 11-850-143 was compiled, not amended, on November 17, 2025; its last substantive amendment was December 6, 2024. The wording has not moved.
HAR 11-850-143(a); HRS 329D-11; Act 269 (2025)
04 — Quick Answers

Hawaii Packaging FAQ

What universal symbol is required on cannabis packaging in Hawaii?
Hawaii requires the None. Hawaii requires no symbol.. Minimum size: No symbol, so no symbol size. Type size is what Hawaii regulates. Type: 1/16 inch minimum height, measured on the letter O. Where both cases are used, measure the lower-case o. Same 1/16 inch floor applies to text moved onto an insert. All required information must read prominently and conspicuously.. Placement: Not applicable - there is no symbol..
Is child-resistant packaging required in Hawaii?
Every package is child-resistant. Not multi-serving packs, not edibles - every package of cannabis and of manufactured cannabis product. Child-resistant special packaging on every package. There is no product-type or serving-count exception. Flower jars and single-serving packs are covered too - the rule reaches all of them. The standard is 16 C.F.R. part 1700, as published by the U.S. Government Publishing Office AS OF JANUARY 1, 2021. The certification must be for the number of openings and closings customary for that package size and contents. Give your closure supplier the January 1, 2021 date - a certificate written to a later edition is to a different text. Packaging must also protect the product from contamination and impart no toxic or harmful substance. Packaging must not be reactive, additive or absorptive so as to alter the safety, identity, strength, quality or purity of the product as labeled. Manufactured products are packaged in their final packaging at the original point of manufacture - no repackaging downstream.
What warning statements are required on Hawaii cannabis packaging?
Hawaii prescribes exact wording for 12 warning statement(s) and requires a further 2 by content, where the licensee writes the sentence. Both are set out on this page.
05 — Receipts

Sources & Citations

  • HAR Chapter 11-850 (Hawaii medical cannabis dispensary program), Department of Health amendment and compilation dated November 17, 2025. Sections relied on: 11-850-76, 11-850-135, 11-850-142, 11-850-143, 11-850-144, 11-850-145
  • Official Chapter 11-850 PDF, the source for every label, warning and packaging figure on this page: https://health.hawaii.gov/medicalcannabis/files/2025/12/Chapter11-850-HAR-Nov17-2025.pdf — it is a large scanned file, so download it and read it locally rather than through a browser preview
  • HRS Chapter 329D, specifically 329D-9(c), 329D-11(a)(1), 329D-11(a)(2) and 329D-11(b)
  • Hawaii Department of Health, Office of Medical Cannabis Control and Regulation: https://health.hawaii.gov/medicalcannabis/
  • Act 269 (2025), hemp retailer and distributor registration; DOH and Attorney General enforcement began July 1, 2026

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