(a) The department shall establish standards regarding the advertising and packaging of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products; provided that the standards, at a minimum, shall require the use of packaging that:

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-11

  • Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • dispensary: means a person licensed by the State pursuant to this chapter to own, operate, or subcontract no more than three production centers and up to two retail dispensing locations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • dispensing: means the act of a licensed dispensary providing cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to a qualifying patient, primary caregiver, qualifying out-of-state patient, or caregiver of a qualifying out-of-state patient for a fee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • Manufacture: means the preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a substance containing cannabis or its principal psychoactive constituent tetrahydrocannabinol, either directly or indirectly, by a person other than a qualifying patient, primary caregiver, qualifying out-of-state patient, or caregiver of a qualifying out-of-state patient for the qualifying patient's or qualifying out of state patient's use, by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • Manufactured cannabis product: means :

    (1) Any capsule, lozenge, oil or oil extract, tincture, ointment or skin lotion, pill, transdermal patch, or pre-filled and sealed container used to aerosolize and deliver cannabis orally or by inhalation, such as an inhaler , nebulizer, or device that provides safe pulmonary administration, that has been manufactured using cannabis;
    (2) Edible cannabis products;
    (3) Pre-rolled cannabis flower products; or
    (4) Any other products as specified by the department pursuant to section 329D-10(a)(11). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
  • Production: includes the manufacture of medical cannabis products pursuant to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329D-1
(1) Is child-resistant and opaque so that the product cannot be seen from outside the packaging;
(2) Uses only lettering in colors approved by the department on a white background with no pictures or graphics;
(3) Is clearly labeled with the phrase “For medical use only”;
(4) Is clearly labeled with the phrase “Not for resale or transfer to another person”;
(5) Includes instructions for use and “use by date”;
(6) Contains information about the contents and potency of the product;
(7) Includes the name of the production center where cannabis in the product was produced, including the batch number and date of packaging;
(8) Includes a barcode generated by tracking software; and
(9) In the case of a manufactured cannabis product, includes a:

(A) Listing of the equivalent physical weight of the cannabis used to manufacture the amount of the product that is within the packaging, pursuant to section 329D-9(c);
(B) Clearly labeled warning stating that the product:

(i) Is a medication that contains cannabis, and is not a food; and
(ii) Should be kept away from children; and
(C) Date of manufacture.
(b) Any capsule, lozenge, or pill containing cannabis or its principal psychoactive constituent tetrahydrocannabinol shall be packaged so that one dose, serving, or single wrapped item contains no more than ten milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol; provided that no manufactured cannabis product that is sold in a pack of multiple doses, servings, or single wrapped items, nor any containers of oils, shall contain more than a total of one thousand milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol per pack or container; provided further that no dispensary shall exceed the dispensing limits imposed by § 329D-7.
(c) All manufactured cannabis products shall be individually wrapped at the original point of manufacture.
(d) The department shall be authorized to allow dispensaries to provide, disseminate, and publish educational and scientific materials relating to medical cannabis and its approved products and sponsor events about medical cannabis.

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