Piedmont City Council Says No to CBD Retailers in the City Limits

The Piedmont City council met Tuesday night to discuss several issues facing the city. One issue on the agenda was to decide whether to allow a CBD retailer to open and sell CBD products within the city limits.

Police Chief Nathan Johnson, who originally brought the issue to the council’s attention, was asked by the council to give them more information. Chief Johnson pointed out that the city currently had no ordinance either allowing Retail CBD sales or not and on the recommendation of the ABC board the council needed decide which course of action to take.  Johnson went on to say if  the council voted to banned CBD sales then a letter would be prepared and taken to businesses who may currently carry those products informing them they had a certain amount of time to remove those products from their store.

If those products are not removed by the deadline then there would be repercussions to the business.  Council member Feazell asked if this would affect the drugstores that sold therapeutic crème which contained CBD. Chief Johnson informed him based on the model they were proposing to use it would not. Those products could still be purchased from the drug store and some may require a prescription.

Council member Feazell commented that he had reviewed the proposal and was in favor of it. He made the motion to banned CBD products sold by retailers. The motion was second by council member Richard Williams. A Roll call vote was taken council members Lawrence, Williams, Feazell, Ivey, and Kiser all voted no to allowing retail sales of CDB products. Council members Pope and South were not in attendance.