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16050 Canaanville Rd, Athens, OH 45701

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Oil of Hemp Bottle

Hemp Seed Oil

April 21, 2020
Hemp oil, or hemp seed oil, is pressed from seeds of cannabis. Cold-pressed, unrefined hemp oil is light to dark green in color. Hemp seed oil was in common use in the human diet and as an animal feed.

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Cannabis in Early America Featured Image

Cannabis in Early America

April 19, 2020
The cutoff of British imports during the Revolutionary War sparked the development of a domestic drug industry. Cannabis was a common ingredient in these early potents, but only European strains were known. Cannabis products, fiber, grain and seed oil remained important for industry and medicine.

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Cannabis Museum Summer Highlighted Featured Image of Display Case with Cannabis Containers

Cannabis Becomes a Standardized Medicine

April 18, 2020
As well as the small number of mythological subjects which are his best-known works today, he painted a wide range of religious subjects and also some portraits. He and his workshop were especially known for their Madonna and Childs, many in the round tondo shape.

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Identical Milk White Cannabis Sativa and Indica Bottles

The Arrival of Cannabis Indica

March 22, 2020
The Arrival of Cannabis Indica THC varieties were first introduced to America when the shipping trade brought hashish from the Orient. The utility of what was assumed to be a new species was quickly recognized and termed Cannabis indica by French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in…

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We Preserve the History of Cannabis

As fiber, food, fuel and medicine. Our collections crossover many other areas including ethnobotany, fiber production, the history of pharmacology, prohibition, propaganda, counterculture and psychedelia. Our collections of historic artifacts are preserved to share the stories of Cannabis.

The Cannabis Museum is an Ohio 501(c)(3) educational and research nonprofit organization, dedicated to revealing the history of mainstream cannabis use in the United States and around the world. It collects, preserves, and shares the history of cannabis use, culture, prohibition, and politics.

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