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Arizona has an open adult use and medical market. Retail is licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau of Marijuana Licensing.
47 verified facts on this page. Last verified September 6, 2026.
A.R.S. 36-2852 allows six plants per adult and twelve per residence; ADHS adopted delivery-to-consumer rules (R9-18-312.01, effective November 1, 2024) as required by A.R.S. 36-2854; passage date of Prop 207 could not be confirmed because azsos.gov blocked fetches.
Cultivation of twelve plants is allowed only when the registry card authorizes it because no dispensary operates within twenty-five miles of the patient's home (A.R.S. 36-2801 and 36-2804.02); ADHS guidance GD-107 confirms delivery to patients is not prohibited.
Bloom has not verified which seed-to-sale system the state requires for Arizona yet. Nothing is asserted here in its place.
Check the regulator directly: Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau of Marijuana Licensing rules, Arizona Department of Health Services rules.
A marijuana establishment must keep its retail site open to consumers at least 30 hours weekly between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., and must post where entering consumers can see them its approval to operate, its licence, the hours during which it will sell, and the ADHS-format sign warning of dangers to fetuses from marijuana while pregnant or to infants while breastfeeding and of the risk of a report to the Department of Child Safety.
A city, town or county may regulate the time, place and manner of marijuana establishment operations, may limit or prohibit establishments outright, may restrict public signage, and may prohibit or restrict delivery within its jurisdiction, so every store and every delivery destination must be checked against local ordinance.
No sale, transfer or provision of marijuana or a marijuana product to anyone under 21; a consumer is by definition an individual at least twenty-one years of age.
Before selling or transferring, the agent must verify the consumer's age using one of the eight document types listed in A.R.S. 4-241(K), each unexpired and bearing a photograph and date of birth.
Block any single transaction exceeding one ounce of marijuana, of which no more than five grams may be marijuana concentrate; the five grams is carved out of the ounce, not added to it.
Do not dispense an amount that would cause the registered qualifying patient to exceed two and one-half ounces of marijuana in any fourteen-day period, measured against the state registry allotment rather than the store's own ledger.
After verifying and before handing over the marijuana, the agent must enter into the state verification system how much was dispensed, whether it went to the patient or the caregiver, the date and time, and the registry identification numbers of both the dispensary and the dispensing agent.
A qualifying patient under eighteen may hold a registry card only where a custodial parent or legal guardian serves as designated caregiver and controls the acquisition, dosage and frequency, so a minor patient may not transact alone.
An out-of-state registry card has the same force as an Arizona card for possession, but a visiting qualifying patient is NOT authorized to obtain marijuana from a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary; serve them as an adult-use consumer or not at all.
Dispensing information kept under A.R.S. 36-2806.02(B) or department rule must identify cardholders by registry identification number and must not contain names or other personally identifying information.
The sixteen percent marijuana excise tax does not apply to marijuana dispensed to a registered qualifying patient or registered designated caregiver by a dual licensee or nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary, so the POS must zero that line on a verified medical sale while still charging transaction privilege tax.
A product subject to the marijuana excise tax may not be bundled with a product or service that is not subject to that tax, so a single bundled SKU mixing taxed marijuana with untaxed goods or services cannot be sold.
Beyond the transaction privilege tax, the use tax and the sixteen percent state excise, neither the state nor a locality may levy any additional tax, fee or assessment on the sale of marijuana or on the licensing, operations or activities of marijuana establishments, unless the fee is generally applicable to non-marijuana businesses.
Only batches whose test results comply with R9-18-408 and Table 3.1 may be offered for sale or transfer, and until results are back the batch must be stored away from product offered for sale; a failing batch is remediated or destroyed; and the agent must make the results available to the consumer on request before the sale.
Every unit sold must carry the establishment licence number, the amount, strain and batch number, and the same batch number must key the licensee's own inventory control system, so a sale line without a batch identifier cannot be completed.
Arizona runs no state seed-to-sale system; instead each licensee must procure and maintain its own tracking system covering cultivation, manufacturing, sale, inter-licensee transfer and waste, recording who made each entry with time, date and location, and carrying a transactional stamp that forecloses tampering, human error or intentional misreporting.
The inventory control system must document each day's beginning inventory, acquisitions, harvests, transfers out, sales, samples sent for testing, disposals and the day's ending inventory, and the designated agent must conduct and document an audit against generally accepted accounting principles at least once every 30 calendar days.
Where the 30 day audit shows a reduction not explained by documented causes, the establishment must determine and document where the loss occurred and take and document corrective action, so every adjustment needs a recorded reason and, where applicable, a corrective action.
Any loss or theft of marijuana from the retail, cultivation or manufacturing site must be documented and reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency, and where an audit shortfall is suspected to be criminal activity by an agent, the agent must be reported to both ADHS and local law enforcement.
Disposal must be under written policies and must record the description of and reason for the disposal, the date, the method, and the name and licence number of the agent responsible; product must be rendered unrecognizable or otherwise unusable, and marijuana that is not usable marijuana may instead be submitted to local law enforcement with the submission documented.
Arizona's transfer manifest is the trip plan. Before any movement of marijuana the agent must complete a trip plan naming the agent in charge, the vehicle licence plate, the date and start time, a description of what is being moved, every anticipated stop with estimated arrival and departure times, and the anticipated route, and give a copy to the establishment.
A marijuana establishment may acquire marijuana only from its own cultivation or manufacturing site, from another marijuana establishment, or from a dispensary holding a registration certificate under 9 A.A.C. 17; every receipt must record the batch, strain, amounts, the providing entity and agent, the receiving agent and the date.
Product moving to another establishment or a dispensary must be labelled with the sending licence number, the amount, strain and batch number and the harvest, sale and manufacture dates, and a copy of the testing facility results must travel with it.
Delivery is lawful only under the ADHS delivery rules, only a licensed marijuana facility agent associated with the establishment may transport for delivery, every delivery and everything delivered must originate at the designated retail site after a consumer order, no extra or unallocated product may ride along, and the establishment must first have written policies covering order taking, agent-only transport, vehicle breakdown or accident, trip plan updates, and returning undelivered product.
No product may leave for a consumer unless the retail site received the order during its posted regular hours of operation and an agent at the retail site documented the order date and time, the agent's name, the consumer's name and date of birth, the identifying number of the document that will verify age, the delivery address, and the amount and retail price of each item plus the order total.
The delivery vehicle must be currently registered, carry no marijuana identification, have GPS or equivalent live location tracking plus at least 90 days of location history, run video surveillance of the interior including the driver's seat and the product for the whole trip with recordings kept at least 30 days, and hold the product out of sight in a locked compartment.
No more than $10,000 total retail price of marijuana, marijuana plants and marijuana products for delivery may be in a delivery vehicle at one time.
No delivery to any property owned or leased by the United States, the State of Arizona, a political subdivision of the state, or the Arizona Board of Regents, and none to any address whose owner has told the establishment that delivery is not permitted there.
At the door and before handing anything over, the delivering agent must confirm the person accepting is the ordering consumer, verify identity and age against an A.R.S. 4-241(K) document, apply the purchase limit and the test-results duty, and obtain the consumer's hand-written signature on the order.
A delivering agent may not pick up or otherwise receive marijuana from a consumer for transport back to the establishment once a delivery is complete, and must return to the retail site at the end of the trip plan with any product that was not handed over.
Arizona imposes no two-person requirement in a delivery vehicle; every delivery duty in A.R.S. 36-2854(D) and A.A.C. R9-18-312 and R9-18-312.01 is written for a single marijuana facility agent, so one licensed person may lawfully drive and complete a delivery alone.
Consumer units must carry the licence number, amount, strain, batch number, form, weight, potency, ingredients in order of abundance, a scannable quick response code to the required webpage, and the full ADHS warning beginning "ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES WARNING: Marijuana use can be addictive" and ending "KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN"; they must leave in child-resistant packaging, and an edible may not exceed 10 mg total THC per serving or 100 mg per package, scored and homogenized if multi-serving.
Advertising may not target under-21s, imitate child-marketed food or drink brands, use toys, cartoons or fictional characters including Santa Claus, depict consumption, state potency or THC levels, run in a medium that specially appeals to under-21s, appear at or on public airports, transit shelters, buses, trains, shuttles or trams, run electronically or on social media or a website unless at least 73.6 percent of the audience is expected to be 21 or over, or make a health statement known to be untrue; and every advertisement must carry the warning "Do not use marijuana if you are under twenty-one years of age or pregnant. Keep marijuana out of reach of children."
No Arizona tied-house rule was found. Nothing in A.R.S. title 36 chapter 28.2 or in 9 A.A.C. 18 articles 1 to 4 prohibits a cultivator or manufacturer paying a retailer for in-store placement, and the advertising statute is content-based rather than trade-practice-based, so paid placement requires counsel review before Bloom sells it in Arizona.
Arizona has no state rule on discounts, bundled promotions, free product, nominal-price promotions or trade samples to consumers; the only adjacent hard limits are the excise anti-bundling provision and the ban on advertising potency, so a giveaway or a deep discount needs review rather than an automatic block.
Arizona sets four retention clocks. Inventory control and audit documentation must be kept at the establishment for at least five years; trip plans and delivery transport documents for at least two years; every other document required by the chapter for at least twelve months; premises and in-vehicle surveillance recordings for at least 30 calendar days; and all of it must be produced to ADHS on request.
Every principal officer, board member, employee and volunteer must hold a valid marijuana facility agent licence linked to the establishment in the ADHS electronic system, and must have that licence in immediate possession while working at any site or transporting marijuana; an unlicensed individual may not be employed, serve as an officer, or volunteer.
Access to a cultivation or manufacturing site, or to the part of the retail site where marijuana is cultivated, processed, manufactured or stored, is limited to the establishment's principal officers, board members and authorized agents, and anyone else in those areas must be supervised by an associated marijuana facility agent at all times.
A nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary may not allow any person to consume marijuana on its property, and no one may smoke marijuana in a public place or open space, so no on-premises consumption may be offered or recorded.
Before dispensing, the agent must access the ADHS verification system and confirm that the registry identification card is valid, that each person presenting a card is the person identified on it, and that the amount would not breach the fourteen-day limit.
Bloom is compliance software and source-linked regulatory information, not legal advice. A licensee remains responsible for its own compliance. Verify against the cited source.
Response generated October 23, 2026.