In response to recent looting of California cannabis retailers, at least one of the three agencies that oversee the state’s marijuana industry has removed from public view an online database containing business information.

The Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) confirmed to Marijuana Business Daily on Thursday that it had removed the licensing database from its website at the urging of industry members who had been robbed over the weekend during protests over George Floyd’s death in Minnesota.

The BCC’s cannabis license site typically is searchable for any member of the public who wants to look up names and addresses and other information for state-legal marijuana companies, including retailers, delivery services, microbusinesses, distributors and testing labs.

“Nothing is working for the public right now. The whole search function has been taken down,” BCC spokesman Alex Traverso said. “This was a change made based on requests from businesses that were burglarized over the weekend.”

Similar databases have long been made available by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), which oversees cannabis farmers, and the Department of Public Health (CDPH), which oversees manufacturers.

As of Thursday morning, the CDFA’s database was not functioning, but the agency did not immediately respond to an MJBizDaily request for comment.

The CDPH’s database is still functioning but contains limited information and does not display licensee addresses.

The BCC’s change went into effect on Sunday, Traverso said, adding that no decision has been made about when the database will be restored.

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