STOA Wellness
Health and beauty shop · Greenvale ·
Experts & CBD recovery solutions for fitness, pain, stress & sleep
Experts & CBD recovery solutions for fitness, pain, stress & sleep
"I learned that Sidewalk Wellness, a newly opened CBD-focused offshoot run by the owners of the Sidewalk Juice juice, smoothie, and acai bowl chain, closed suddenly last week after the San Francisco Department of Public Health told operators they could no longer sell ingestible hemp-derived CBD products; the store — which reopened on Friday at 3186 21st street — now no longer offers edibles such as gummies, chocolates, olive oils, or CBD-infused coffee and instead sells only non-ingestible topicals like ointments. Inspectors red-tagged the ingestible items after responding to a complaint, and owner Gus Daibis says those packaged products are currently in his trunk; Daibis and his partner Jason Nazzal had opened a separate Sidewalk location to keep their CBD and food brands separate, but that precaution did not prevent enforcement. While hemp-derived CBD is federally legal, it is not FDA-approved for ingestion, and Daibis says he will wait to see whether California bill AB 228 becomes law — Canna Law Blog notes AB 228 would undercut a major argument used against hemp CBD foods, though it would not change the FDA’s position and state regulators’ response could remain uncertain; Daibis’s lawyer estimates the legislative outcome could take six months to two years." - Caleb Pershan
"A small, clean market a few blocks from the original Sidewalk Juice opened at 3186 21st Street last Saturday as a CBD-focused outgrowth of the juice-bar mini-chain, selling chocolates, tinctures, and oils made with hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD). So far the best sellers are brightly colored CBD gummies in a variety of flavors and shapes made by JustCBD, and the shop carries a wide array of hemp-derived products — bath bombs, foot scrubs, CBD coffee, and Sidewalk’s own line of CBD dark chocolate raisins — reflecting CBD’s sudden ubiquity as a touted anti-inflammatory and pain remedy (though the benefits aren’t well researched). The owners say they plan eventually to merge the juice and CBD offerings so you could get a smoothie or green energy juice with CBD, but for now they opened a separate retail store. Unlike a cannabis club, Sidewalk Wellness is a typical walk-in shop (no sign-in), and because it only sells hemp-derived CBD it can’t offer cannabis-derived CBD or products with THC, but it can sell items pot shops cannot, like CBD coffee." - Caleb Pershan
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