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The museum is open Wed to Sat 12 pm - 5 pm & by appointment
16050 Canaanville Rd, Athens, OH 45701
The museum is open Wed to Sat 12 pm - 5 pm & by appointment
16050 Canaanville Rd, Athens, OH 45701

Cannabis Americana

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Cannabis Americana tells the intertwined American history of two strains of Cannabis. Cannabis sativa, the hemp plant, originally from Eastern China, its seeds were passed around the world as a common fiber plant. Cannabis indica, a folk medicine introduced from India in 1785. 

Cannabis Americana also refers to a strain developed in the early 1900s by pharmaceutical companies Parke-Davis and Eli Lilly to create a stable, potent hybrid of Cannabis indica and Cannabis sativa.

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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