California Bureau of Cannabis Control Suspends Nearly 400 Licenses

394 cannabis businesses had their licenses suspended for failing to enroll in a program that tracks the supply of marijuana products in California

Nearly 400 California cannabis companies had their licenses to operate suspended by regulators on Friday, pending the firms’ enrollment in a system designed to track the supply of marijuana products in the state. The action by the California Bureau of Cannabis Control has affected a total of 394 cannabis distributors, retailers, delivery services, and microbusinesses.

Under provisions of Prop 64, the 2016 voter initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in California, businesses licensed to operate in the state’s legal cannabis market must participate in a track-and-trace system to prevent the diversion of products to the illicit market. State regulators have selected tracking software provided by Metrc, a company based in Lakeland, Florida that provides its services to 11 other states with legal cannabis.

California cannabis businesses are currently transitioning from temporary licenses, which expired during the summer, to provisional licenses, the next step in the process of obtaining a permanent annual operating permit. As companies qualified for their provisional licenses, they were given five days to enroll in Metrc, complete required training, and begin uploading inventory data to the track-and-trace system.

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