Legendary activist and attorney, Don E. Wirtshafter, visited the 2016 Oregon Hemp Convention to share photos from America’s first cannabis museum. His one-of-a-kind collection of reveals the history of cannabis as a medicine and its transition from apothecary to drug stores. Don's research gives us an understanding of how much medical practitioners knew about cannabis 100 years ago and the various ways it was used to heal. Visit the website: www.cannabismuseum.com

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00:05 The Cannabis Museum
So Don Wirtshafter, not only responsible for the Cannabis Museum, but his roots in the cannabis movements, whether we're talking marijuana or whether we're talking industrial hemp, are tremendous. I have the first hemp store in the state of New York. None of us really would have had hemp stores back in the early '90s if it weren't for Don Wirtshafter. Don Wirtshafter was our hemp dealer for the hemp stores back in the '90s.

00:28 Cannabis Apothecary
I've got a lecture material that no one else has, I've collected the history of cannabis as a medicine. And so we have apothecaries from 1830, and the whole transition from apothecaries to drug stores. So we have a lot of the modern drugs that were distributed in the 1930s taken off the shelf in 1937, when cannabis prohibition came into the fore. So we explain how glass making changed the whole pharmacy. We're building a cannabis museum, it's a long process.

1:01 The origins of glass making
My 40 years of collecting has produced a very large treasure trove of materials for researchers, we have to put them in order and get them in a form that researchers are gonna be able to use them. It started off being glass, it was very expensive, and it was a high tech display of its era. And as they figured out ways to mold the glass, and then to automate the molding of glass, bottles went from very expensive to very inexpensive, and so the drugs became disposable.

1:31 Old Time Remedies
This brought on single compound chemicals in the modern chemical, pharmacy companies, and pushed the herbs out of the market, cannabis being the first one to go. And there was a whole movement to make it so only patentable medicines could be in the drug stores. They didn't wanna have the old-time remedies in there, because nobody could make money on it.

01:58 Cannabis was a normal product
This is not hidden stuff, we just have overlooked what happened. And this collection represents just a hundred years, from the 1830s to the mid-1930s, of cannabis as just an accepted product, one of many, that were used for specific illnesses. We are still, in half of the country, under prohibition on this. And a lot of places you cannot talk about it. You can't walk into a facility, a dispensary and ask questions. One of our intentions with this collection was to provide something for dispensaries where it's on the wall, there's the statement. You don't have to talk about it, but if you're interested in knowing the difference between a fluid extract and a tincture, and how those have applied, or smoking cannabis versus something like a compressed hashish, this is where you learn.

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