Big Island-based Hawaiian Ethos, the eighth and final licensed medical cannabis dispensary in the state to receive approval from the Department of Health, plans to begin sales on Sunday.

The company’s licensed retail center is at 73-5613 Olowalu St. in Kailua-Kona. Hawaiian Ethos also is planning an additional retail center in Hilo.

“A medical cannabis dispensary in Kailua-Kona will provide safe access to registered patients in West Hawaii who have been patiently awaiting this option for their medical needs,” said Michele Nakata, medical cannabis program supervisor. “The DOH medical cannabis dispensary program continues to work closely and collaboratively with the state’s licensees to ensure patient safety, product safety, and public safety.”

Hawaiian Ethos is the second dispensary to open on Hawaii island. Big Island Grown Dispensaries opened its dispensary in January in Hilo, and a satellite facility in March in Waimea.

As of May 31, there were about 7,572 registered patients and 433 caregivers on Hawaii island out of 26,125 patients and 1,986 caregivers registered statewide. The conditions primarily reported for adult-registered patients is severe pain while the primary reported conditions for children under 18 are seizures and severe pain.

“We are really looking forward to serving our community,” said Diana Hahn, Hawaiian Ethos communications director. “While it’s taken longer than we had hoped to get to this point, we’ve used the extra time to learn about local patients’ needs and have integrated what they want into what we do. Our medicine is sun-grown and sustainably packaged with minimal plastic. Along with traditional products, we are offering unique controlled dose and microdose options that are not inhaled.”

Hahn said the company has created a personalized medicine app called Talk Medicine that helps patients figure out what works for them, while also providing feedback so Hawaiian Ethos can keep advancing cannabis medicine.

The state legalized medical cannabis in 2000, but patients had no legal way to obtain the drug until Maui Grown Therapies opened in August 2017, followed by Aloha Green Apothecary in Honolulu. Besides the two Big Island pot retailers, the other companies include Pono Life Maui; Noa Botanicals and Cure Oahu in Honolulu; and Green Aloha Ltd., doing business as Have a Heart, on Kauai.