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Hemp Museum Opens Doors!
Posted by FoM on June 16, 1999 at 13:37:57 PT
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Source: Hemptech
To help educate people about the benefits of this versatile plant, the Kentucky hemp Growers Cooperative has opened its museum and library in Versailles at 149 Lexington Street.
At one time, Woodford County produced more hemp seed than any other single location in the United States. In the past, hemp was the source of a vast array of products from oil to textiles to foodstuffs. But hemp fell out of favor, partly because of the availability of alternatives to these products but also because a close relative, marijuana, was deemed a criminal substance to produce because of its psychoactive properties. But a movement has been under way for several years to reintroduce hemp to Kentucky as an agricultural commodity. To help educate people about the benefits of this versatile plant, the Kentucky hemp Growers Cooperative has opened its museum and library in Versailles at 149 Lexington Street. A ribbon cutting ceremony for the museum was held on June 4. The Kentucky Hemp Museum and Library has actually been around as an entity since 1994, created as a tool to teach people about the cultural, historic and economic impact of hemp in Kentucky and the U.S. It sponsored a 1995 poll which showed that 77 percent of respondents favored the growing of industrial hemp. A mobile museum exhibit was created in 1996, which toured the state, other parts of the country, and paid a visit to Vancouver, Canada with the help of the Deni Montana Foundation, the museum and library sponsored a 1998 economic impact study of industrial hemp in Kentucky. The museum is interested in obtaining either oral or written history from people who remember when hemp was produced in Kentucky as well as any memorabilia related to hemp production. For more information call: (606) 873-8957 or by e-mail: kyhempmuse aol.com 
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Comment #1 posted by denny j Huber on October 03, 2000 at 21:22:21 PT:
want bring mobile Exhibit here-
send info on touring-expo Huber,Shows Box 19249 Oakland-Pitt PA 15213
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