These are just some of the things you’ll learn about during your stroll through the Museum of Weed, an exhibit sponsored by Weedmaps-the Yelp of marijuana dispensaries-that popped up in a 30,000-squarefoot warehouse in Hollywood in early August.
It was due to shut in late September but has been extended till the end of this month.
The museum is a clever, immersive, interactive maze, first winding you past depictions of ancient Chinese and Indian mystics partaking in cannabis and eventually turning you toward a portrait of George Washington standing proudly in front of his bumper crop of American hemp.
The pre-prohibition room is only the warm-up. You swirl into a section on Reefer Madness, walls plastered with towering 1930s anti-marijuana propaganda depicting psychotic pot addicts and women surrendering to lustful demons under the influence of the “Devil’s weed.” But soon you reach a section on the hard-won victories of early medical cannabis activists such as San Francisco’s Dennis Peron.
The Museum of Weed, open through the end of September, leaves visitors feeling solemn about the tragedy of prohibition but also optimistic about a future in which scientists can freely study this plant and consumers can freely experiment with it.
Meanwhile in Las Vegas, a museum that opened briefly featuring a 24-foot high bong, has abruptly closed while promising to reopen at a different location. The two-story-tall specimen of supersized drug paraphernalia was the main attraction at Cannabition, which opened September 20 at Neonopolis in Downtown Las Vegas. A progression of 12 small exhibits celebrated the recent rise of cannabis culture in Nevada and across the country, in a zany journey that teaches about botany, chemistry, psychoactive compounds such as Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and stoner culture since the 1960s.
Weed Museum
720 North Cahuenga Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Onsite valet available
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