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The museum is open Wed to Sat 12 pm - 5 pm & by appointment
The museum is open Wed to Sat 12 pm - 5 pm & by appointment
16050 Canaanville Rd, Athens, OH 45701
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025 Cannabis Americana Read More

Welcome To The Cannabis Museum

The Cannabis Museum is dedicated to educating the public on the hidden artistic, historic, medical, and industrial mainstream venues of cannabis and its countless uses in the United States and around the world. We document and present the hidden history of the mainstream use of Cannabis. Prior to its ban in 1937, for political reasons only, cannabis had 25,000 uses in commerce: food, fuel, fiber, and medicine. Our collection is the largest most unique in this space. Check out Events, our Exhibitions and Digitized Collections on the following pages.

Upcoming Events

Brother Hill

February 27, 2025 19:00
Brother Hill is a folk musician, singer, songwriter, and humanitarian volunteer from Dayton, Ohio. Hill performs solo as Brother Hill and as front man in Athens-based folk-quintet “Hill Spirits”.

Current Exhibits

Cannabis Museum Main Header Image of Various Glass Containers

Cannabis Americana

January 1, 2025-December 31, 2025
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.

The Golden Age of Cannabis Medicine 1850-1937

January 15, 2025-December 31, 2025
This major exhibition shows the revolutionary art of the late 1960s, expressed through some of the greatest music hits of the 20th century as well as paintings, film industry, fashion and design.

The End of the Hempire 1850-1937

February 1, 2025-December 31, 2025
Unravel the events that lead to the decline in hemp. America was built on a foundation of hemp, grown by the earliest explorers and settlers. Hemp was used for ropes, twine, nets, canvas for sails, tents, and wagon covers.

Visitor Info

Admission Prices

Adults

$5.00

Opening Hours

Wednesday – Saturday

12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Collections Research

The Cannabis Museum’s collections include more than 10,000 objects drawn from a broad range of cultures, disciplines, and mediums related to the cannabis culture throughout various historic and geographic locations. The Museum possesses an unparalleled and significant collection of Apothecary Glass Vessels. This extensive collection includes more than 1500 glassworks and containers that reflect the history and development of glass manufacturing side-by-side with the medical and pharmaceutical practices between the 1830s throughout the prohibition era of 1937 until our current day. The museum also includes a unique collection of medical records and journals, prescriptions, samples, pharmacopeias, and other related relics.

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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