Your CBD Store has set up shop in Daniel Village, its third in the CSRA and first in Richmond County.
“It felt like the right move to get over there where it’s more convenient for the people from South Augusta, the people from West Augusta,” said owner Dylan Lyons, who opened the first Your CBD Store Augusta location with his father, Bruce Lyons, in Martinez in 2019.
Your CBD Store is a chain retailer, based in Palmetto, Fla. near Tampa, of 650 stores, founded by Rachael Quinn and her husband, CEO Marcus Quinn—a friend of Bruce Lyons—in 2018. It specializes in cannabidiol, or CBD, products, extracted from hemp plants.
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The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the 2018 Farm Bill, signed by former President Donald Trump in December of that year, allows the growth and transfer of hemp and hemp-derived products containing less than 0.3% of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive substance in marijuana.
CBD products such as oils, gummies and topical creams, are marketed for use to alleviate chronic issues ranging from arthritis to anxiety to insomnia to, in the case of Rachael Quinn, complications from Crohn’s Disease. The Lyonses decided to open a store in the Augusta area after visiting Tampa and looking into it for themselves.
“It was pretty new and a lot of people were skeptical, with it being a hemp products,” said Dylan Lyons.
However, the first Your CBD Store Augusta on Washington Road proved successful, with such an outpouring of people coming in and finding relief through the products, Lyons says, that he and his father went on to quickly spread their own shops, with one in Lexington, S.C. just three months later. Other South Carolina locations followed, including in Columbia, Spartanburg and Greenville, as well as another CSRA spot in Grovetown on Steiner Way.
Now Lyons is bringing the franchise back home at a space in the Daniel Village plaza, next to Planet Fitness. The new site had a soft opening on May 16, and is acclimating those in the area with sales that will continue from Friday through the following week.
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The location was chosen, Lyons says, in part to reach new potential customers, especially those seeking treatment at any of the many healthcare centers near and long Wrightsboro Road who might find the new location convenient.
“People that are dealing with these kind of chronic issues, ‘grandma and grandpa,’ are not going to go to a smoke shop,” he said. “That’s part of what probably made them hesitant at first. We’ve tried to bring a more classy, clean vibe. We’re just trying to educate the customer.”
The new Your CBD Store is located at 2803 Wrightsboro Rd., Ste. 35. Its Martinez location is 4015 Washington Rd., and in Grovetown 4984 Steiner Way. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/TheCBDStoreofAugusta/.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering education in Columbia County and business-related topics for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
