State Compliance Guide
Nevada
Cannabis Packaging Requirements
Nevada cannabis packaging is regulated by the Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB). The market is adult-use & medical. Packaging must be child-resistant, must carry the state universal symbol, and must print 8 required warning statements. Artwork must be approved by the state before printing. Royal Supply last reviewed this guide against the regulation on September 1, 2026.
8Required Warnings
YesChild-Resistant
YesPre-Approval Needed
September 1, 2026Last Reviewed
Official artwork
01 — The Mark
Universal Symbol Requirements
Symbol Specifications
SymbolNevada Universal Cannabis Symbol
Minimum SizeNo minimum size is set.
- Nevada prescribes no dimension in NCCR 12 or in CCB guidance.
- Royal Supply house standard — Nevada sets no requirement here. Size it clearly visible and legible on the finished pack.
Notes on this section — 1
- That sizing floor is our recommendation, not a Board rule.
ColorsAny color that contrasts with the packaging background.
PlacementEdible packaging. No panel is specified.
- Edibles: also on each single-serving product, stamped or molded.
- Multi-serving edibles: on each serving of 10 mg THC or less.
- Liquid edibles packaged as 12.015 requires are exempt from stamping and molding.
How To ObtainDownload the artwork from the CCB.
- Guidance document: Nevada's Universal Cannabis Symbol, on the CCB Guidance page at ccb.nv.gov.
- Milligrams may be placed next to the symbol, never inside it. The symbol may not be modified in any way.
- Alternative product identifiers require written CCB approval: AuditInspections@ccb.nv.gov.
A universal cannabis symbol printed in a contrasting color — on edible packaging only.
- Required on edible cannabis product packaging.
- Edibles: also stamped or molded into the servings themselves.
- Not required on flower, preroll, vape, concentrate, topical or patch packaging.
Notes on this section — 1
- The symbol appears in NCCR 12 only in the edible rules at 12.015(1)(e) and 12.020. Neither retail label list requires it.
Official Files & Links
⬇NV Universal Cannabis Symbol (PDF)Design & Print Specs
Font Minimum8 pt min, no italics
Symbol ColorsAs issued by CCB
CMYK / PMSAs issued by CCB
PlacementEdible packaging and each edible serving, contrasting color
Bold RequiredNo
Universal symbol is an edibles rule only — not required on flower, vape or concentrate packs. Board approval of the packaging is required before use (NCCR 6.123).
02 — Say It Exactly
Warning Statements (8)
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 Nevada.
Product
Market
Adult-use and medical carry the same warning statements in this state.
Format
Options
Your warning block
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See every statement individually, with citations8
Every retail package4
All four statements appear on both Nevada retail label lists — 12.040 for usable cannabis, 12.045 for cannabis products — so every package carries all four. The rule sets no punctuation inside the quotation marks; print them as shown. Nevada sets no minimum type height for these specifically, but all label text is at least 8-point and never italic.
Exact text required
Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.
THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS CANNABIS
Exact text required
Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.
Keep out of Reach of Children
Exact text required
Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.
This product may have intoxicating effects and may be habit forming
Exact text required
Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.
This product may be unlawful outside of the State of Nevada
Edible packaging, bold2
This is the same sentence as the retail-label one, but 12.015(1)(a) is a separate packaging requirement that applies to edible products and prescribes capitals and bold type. The two statements together are why an edible carton usually shows it once, set bold — one printing satisfies both. Non-edible packaging has no bold requirement.
Edible cannabis products — capitals, in bold type
Exact text requiredNevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.
THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS CANNABIS
Edible cannabis products — capitals, in bold type
Exact text requiredNevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN
Edibles1
Nevada defines an edible cannabis product by oral ingestion and by form — foodstuff, extract, oil, tincture or similar — so tinctures and oral capsules are inside it, not outside. The worked example label further down 12.045 renders this sentence differently, as "CAUTION: When eaten or swallowed the intoxicating effects of this product can be delayed by 2 or more hours." The operative subsection governs; the example is only "substantially the following form".
Edible cannabis products
Exact text requiredNevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.
Caution: When eaten or swallowed, the intoxicating effects of this product may be delayed by 2 or more hours
Irradiated product only1
Print in bold lettering, alongside the Radura symbol used by the FDA. The trigger is any irradiation at any point in the product's history, so it can be introduced by a remediation step after artwork is approved.
Any product treated with radiation at any time
Exact text requiredNevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) prescribes this wording. Reproduce it character for character, including capitalization and punctuation.
NOTICE: This product contains ingredients that have been treated with irradiation
03 — The Fine Print
Packaging & Labeling Rules
Child-ResistantEvery pack must be child-resistant and opaque — and in Nevada the Board has to approve the packaging before you use it.
- Child-resistant to the federal standard at 16 C.F.R. Part 1700.
- Opaque as well as child-resistant.
- Any pack opened more than once must stay child-resistant through repeated openings.
- Packaging must be approved by the appropriate Board Agent before an establishment uses it.
- The Board's packaging form says staff may take up to 30 days, and asks for artwork whenever a new design is created.
- Separately, a production facility must have new menu items and their ingredients approved before production, and edibles need the Board Agent's preapproval before sale.
Before you print
- Build the packaging approval into the schedule ahead of the print run, not after it. It gates use of the packaging, and the Board allows itself 30 days.
Notes on this section — 3
- The packaging approval is a rule, not a courtesy — NCCR 6.123 says an establishment shall not use packaging unless the Board Agent has approved it.
- The packaging guidelines printed on the Board's own submission form still carry pre-2021 wording, including "THIS IS A MARIJUANA PRODUCT" and a 4-mil plastic thickness. The Board's July 6, 2022 notice replaced that wording. Submit against the current NCCR 12, not against the form's box.
- Menu-item approval covers all new products from a production facility, not only edibles.
NCCR 12.015(2); NCCR 6.123; NCCR 9.045(1); NCCR 9.025(3)
LabelingNevada runs two retail label lists — one for flower and one for everything manufactured — and sets a minimum type size for all of it.
- All label text for consumer sale: at least 8-point, and never italic.
- Flower and prerolls: cultivator trade name and establishment ID; batch number; lot number; quantity sold, by net weight in both ounces and grams or by volume; the retailer's name and address; cannabinoid profile, potency levels and the top three terpenes; and the harvest date.
- Flower and prerolls also carry all four warning statements — see the warnings panel.
- Manufactured products: producer trade name and establishment ID; production run number; the retailer's name and address; manufacture date; a suggested use-by date on edibles; cannabinoid profile and potency; ingredients and major food allergens; THC concentration in milligrams; and net weight.
- Manufactured products also carry all four warning statements, plus the delayed-onset caution on edibles.
- Edibles add the THC per serving and a notice that the actual amount may be within 15 percent of it.
- Edibles add the number of servings, sized at no more than 10 mg THC each.
- If concentrate or extract was added, disclose the extraction process and any solvent, gas, chemical or other compound used.
- Edible packaging separately carries net weight, ingredients, major food allergens and the 15 percent notice.
- The label may be affixed, included with the package, or supplied through a Board-approved electronic medium.
Notes on this section — 3
- The eleven long consumer warnings — pregnancy, driving, overconsumption, drug interactions and the rest — are not label copy. They go on accompanying material, printed or electronic, at 12-point minimum and never italic. Do not budget panel space for them.
- "Organic" is a restricted claim: it needs USDA National Organic Program certification for the plants and every ingredient.
- Potency must not include any calculated level of THC other than potential total THC.
NCCR 12.010(3); NCCR 12.040(1); NCCR 12.045(1); NCCR 12.015(1); NCCR 12.050(2) and (4); NCCR 12.025
THC SymbolThe Nevada universal cannabis symbol is an edibles rule. It goes on edible packaging and into the servings themselves — not on flower, vape or concentrate packs.
- Required on edible cannabis product packaging.
- Print it in a color that contrasts with the background.
- No minimum dimension is prescribed.
- Edibles: stamp or mold the symbol into each single-serving product.
- Multi-serving edibles: also into each serving of 10 mg THC or less.
- Impractical to stamp — bulk goods, powders: individually wrap each serving with the symbol on the wrapper, and request the exemption on the Board's form.
- Liquid edibles packaged as 12.015 requires need not be stamped or molded at all.
- No symbol is required on flower, prerolls, vapes, concentrates, topicals or patches.
Notes on this section — 4
- No size floor appears in NCCR 12 or CCB guidance; legibility is our standard, not the Board's.
- Any alternative method of identifying the product needs written CCB approval (AuditInspections@ccb.nv.gov).
- The symbol may not be modified in any way. Milligrams may sit next to it but never inside it.
- The symbol is not on either retail label list — 12.040 for flower, 12.045 for products. It reaches packaging only through the edible rule at 12.015(1)(e).
NCCR 12.015(1)(e); NCCR 12.020(1)-(3)
Health WarningsFour statements print on every retail package. A fifth is added on edibles, and a sixth only if the product was irradiated.
- Every package: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS CANNABIS, Keep out of Reach of Children, the intoxicating-effects line and the out-of-state line. Exact wording is in the warnings panel.
- Edible packaging repeats the first two in capitals and bold type.
- Edibles add the delayed-onset caution.
- Irradiated product adds the irradiation notice in bold, with the Radura symbol.
- All of it at 8-point minimum, none of it italic.
Notes on this section — 2
- Eleven further consumer warnings exist at 12.050 — pregnancy, driving, drug interactions, overconsumption and the rest — but they belong on accompanying material, printed or electronic, at 12-point minimum. They are not panel copy and no package has to carry them.
- Nevada prescribes bold type only for the edible identifier block and the irradiation notice. Nothing else has a weight or height requirement beyond the 8-point floor.
NCCR 12.040(1)(h)-(l); NCCR 12.045(1)(l),(n)-(q); NCCR 12.015(1)(a); NCCR 12.065; NCCR 12.010(3); NCCR 12.050(2) and (4)
Serving SizeTHC is capped per serving and per package, and the caps change with product type.
- Edibles: 10 mg THC per serving, 100 mg per package.
- Edibles: state the number of servings on the label.
- Capsules: 100 mg THC per capsule, 800 mg per package.
- Tinctures: 800 mg THC per package.
- Topicals: 6 percent THC concentration, 800 mg per package.
- Suppositories and transdermal patches: 100 mg THC per unit, 800 mg per package.
- Any other cannabis product: 800 mg THC per package.
- Potency may vary plus or minus 15 percent, and a notice saying so must appear. Leave label space for that line.
NCCR 12.010(1)(a)-(g); NCCR 12.010(2); NCCR 12.015(1)(h)
Opaque PackagingEverything at retail is opaque, and edibles get a second layer of it.
- All retail cannabis: opaque child-resistant packaging.
- Edibles: sealed in a non-transparent container, then sold in opaque outer packaging.
- Liquid edibles: the area that demarks servings may be clear, so a measurement window is allowed.
NCCR 12.015(2); NCCR 12.015(6); NCCR 12.015(4)
ResealablePacks the customer reopens have to reseal, and liquid edibles have a resealable-cap rule of their own.
- Any package opened more than once must reseal and stay child-resistant through repeated openings.
- Liquid edibles over 10 mg THC: a resealable cap is required outright, independent of the child-resistance rule.
- Those containers must also either demark each serving so a reasonable person can intuitively see one serving, or include a device that measures one out.
- The part of the container that demarks servings is allowed to be clear.
Notes on this section — 1
- The resealable-cap rule is a specification in its own right at 12.015(4), not an inference from the multiple-opening rule. A liquid edible over 10 mg needs a cap that reseals even if the closure is already certified child-resistant.
NCCR 12.015(2); NCCR 12.015(4)
Notable RulesWhere Nevada artwork and container reviews usually fail.
- 1 oz (28.35 g) usable cannabis per package.
- 100 mg THC per edible package.
- 800 mg THC per package for capsules, tinctures, topicals, suppositories, patches and any other product.
- Per-unit caps: 100 mg THC for capsules, suppositories and patches.
- Topicals: 6 percent THC concentration.
- No weight cap on a concentrate package. The one-eighth-ounce figure is a possession limit, not a packaging limit.
- Stamp or mold the universal symbol on each single-serving edible and each 10 mg or smaller serving. Settle before mold tooling.
- Multi-serving edibles must be demarked into servings, and a person over 21 must be able to separate one with minimal effort.
- Edibles impractical to demark by milligram must either hold 10 mg THC or less per unit of sale, or be sold as individually wrapped singles.
- Edible packaging must not be marketed as candy or modeled on a brand aimed at children.
- Edible packaging: no cartoon character, mascot, action figure, balloon or toy, except inside the producer's own logo.
- Package each consumer good individually, labeled and sealed in a single package.
- Containers must be food grade and protect the product from contamination.
- All label text: 8-point minimum, no italics.
- The irradiation notice and the Radura symbol are still required today.
- Packaging cannot be used until a Board Agent approves it.
Notes on this section — 4
- Royal Supply tracking, not a rule in force: LCB File No. R152-24 was adopted by the Board and posted as an Adopted Regulation on July 23, 2026. Re-checked this cycle against the Legislature's own register: the 2024 numerical index carries R152-24A at that date and no approval entry after it, and R152-24 does not appear on the list of regulations set for review by the Legislative Commission. A Nevada permanent regulation is not effective until the Commission approves it and it is filed with the Secretary of State, so nothing in it is effective and the current NCCR 12 still governs. It does revise packaging and labeling, so it is worth watching.
- What the adopted text would do, once effective: extend the bold identifier block and the candy, cartoon and food-grade rules from edibles to every cannabis product; extend the serving stamp to medical edibles; shorten the edible delayed-onset warning to "Caution: Intoxicating effects may be delayed by 2 or more hours"; drop the intoxicating-effects and out-of-state statements from the flower label; replace batch and lot numbers with the seed-to-sale parent tag; move the allergen reference from 21 U.S.C. 343 to 321(qq); and repeal the irradiation notice at 12.065.
- Two items previously tracked here are not in the adopted text and should not be planned for: the 1,000 mg capsule package cap and a codified anthropomorphic-image ban.
- Long-lead artwork is the case where this matters. A plate cut now against the current rule is correct today, and the adopted text moves a verbatim edible string when it lands.
NCCR 12.010(1)(a)-(g); NCCR 12.010(3); NCCR 12.015(1)(b)-(d); NCCR 12.015(3),(5),(7),(8); NCCR 12.020(1); NCCR 12.065; NCCR 6.123; NCCR 9.045(1); NCCR 9.025(3); NRS 678D.200; LCB File No. R152-24 (Adopted, posted 7-23-26, not yet approved)
04 — Quick Answers
Nevada Packaging FAQ
What universal symbol is required on cannabis packaging in Nevada?
Nevada requires the Nevada Universal Cannabis Symbol. Minimum size: No minimum size is set. Nevada prescribes no dimension in NCCR 12 or in CCB guidance. Royal Supply house standard — Nevada sets no requirement here. Size it clearly visible and legible on the finished pack.. Placement: Edible packaging. No panel is specified. Edibles: also on each single-serving product, stamped or molded. Multi-serving edibles: on each serving of 10 mg THC or less. Liquid edibles packaged as 12.015 requires are exempt from stamping and molding..
Is child-resistant packaging required in Nevada?
Every pack must be child-resistant and opaque — and in Nevada the Board has to approve the packaging before you use it. Child-resistant to the federal standard at 16 C.F.R. Part 1700. Opaque as well as child-resistant. Any pack opened more than once must stay child-resistant through repeated openings. Packaging must be approved by the appropriate Board Agent before an establishment uses it. The Board's packaging form says staff may take up to 30 days, and asks for artwork whenever a new design is created. Separately, a production facility must have new menu items and their ingredients approved before production, and edibles need the Board Agent's preapproval before sale.
What warning statements are required on Nevada cannabis packaging?
Nevada prescribes exact wording for 8 warning statement(s). The verbatim text is listed on this page.
05 — Receipts
Sources & Citations
- Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) — ccb.nv.gov
- CCB Guidance: Nevada's Universal Cannabis Symbol (CCB Guidance page, ccb.nv.gov)
- CCB Notice to Licensees, Update to Packaging Regulations, issued July 6, 2022 (Inspection and Audit Division)
- Nevada Cannabis Compliance Regulations (NCCR) Regulation 12 — Packaging and Labeling (12.010, 12.015, 12.020, 12.025, 12.040, 12.045, 12.050, 12.065, 12.070), version posted July 2025
- Nevada Cannabis Compliance Regulations (NCCR) Regulation 6 — 6.123, use of packaging: required approval by Board
- Nevada Cannabis Compliance Regulations (NCCR) Regulation 9 — Production Facilities (9.025(3), 9.045(1))
- NRS 678A.070 and 678A.210 — definitions of adult-use and medical edible cannabis product
- NRS Chapter 678D (including NRS 678D.200, personal possession limit)
- NAC Chapter 453D
- LCB File No. R152-24, Adopted Regulation posted July 23, 2026 — adopted by the Board, not yet approved by the Legislative Commission
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