Marijuana dispensaries in several states are temporarily closing their doors to customers after being looted and vandalized amid unrest sparked by the recent death of George Floyd.

MedMen, a publicly traded company that operates more than 30 medical and recreational marijuana dispensaries spanning six states, said Monday that all of its stores are indefinitely closed after several of its shops in southern California were looted over the weekend.

Cresco Labs, another publicly traded company with dispensaries in six states as well, said that it has temporarily closed three of its locations in Illinois after its newly opened storefront in Chicago’s River North neighborhood — the Windy City’s first recreational dispensary — was vandalized Saturday night.

The dispensaries — which are legal under state law but federally prohibited — are among countless retailers around the country ravaged amid the unrest sparked by the death of Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25.

Dozens of dispensaries in California and Oregon were either vandalized, ransacked or looted over the weekend, marijuana website Leafly reported Monday, including several MedMen locations in the Los Angeles area that were brazenly broken into and robbed while onlookers recorded video footage shared widely on social media.

“Effective immediately, we are temporarily closing all stores and the corporate office to protect the safety of our employees,” MedMen announced in an internal memo following the looting, the Marijuana Moment website reported Monday.

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