The project is the first museum in the US hemp
Hemp Museum could become a new economic lever of regional development, the ability to attract tourists and their money.
Residents of the city of Pueblo, (Colorado, USA) took part in the referendum, the main theme of which was the adoption of municipal bills aimed at limiting the hemp business development in the District. Voters had to express its opinion on a ban on any form of doing business hemp (including cultivation of cannabis containing THC varieties), as well as the closure of retail stores of hemp products and organizations that work with hemp in the medical area. According to the results of the referendum, both proposals were rejected by the residents.
This is not surprising. Through the development of this industry in 2012 came from the area of economic depression. Development of hemp companies provided the local community with jobs and stable incomes. The inhabitants of Pueblo and local entrepreneurs decided to open in the city of the country's first national hemp museum dedicated to the history and use cannabisa designed to display the social movement in support of legalizing its medical use. The solution to all organizational issues, including raising funds for the opening of the museum took over the public organization "Keeping the future of the Pueblo", which took an active part in the agitation of local residents to vote against imposing restrictions on conducting business in the area of hemp.
Jim Parks, an economics professor and businessman, argued that the creation of cannabis museum had been planned long before konoplevodstva opponents have put forward to a referendum to limit the production and use of cannabis. Since the legalization in Pueblo has registered more than 200 different manufacturers of hemp production, making the city the second center in the state of Colorado for the production cannabisa and one of the few municipalities of the state where crops are allowed psychoactive hemp in the open field.
Opponents of the city's cooperation with the manufacturers of hemp as an argument cited examples of the negative impact of the work of the local hemp industry in the economy of the city. They believe that the legalization of Pueblo attracted a large number of poor from neighboring states where cannabis cultivation is still prohibited. These people came for the purpose of acquiring legal psychoactive hemp, access to more advanced social programs in Colorado and the existence at the expense of local taxpayers.
In turn, the supporters konoplevodstva further development in the region believe that the prohibition of hemp business in Pueblo can lead to a loss of more than 1,300 jobs, not to mention the related sectors of the local economy. Just Pueblo may lose about $ 3 million in tax revenues. supporters arguments were more convincing as regards financial matters, and prosperity of the city as a whole.
Advocates of hemp business in the area, decided to consolidate the reputation of the Pueblo "Napa Valley of the hemp world." Mr. Park said that "cannabis museum can become a new economic lever of regional development, the ability to attract tourists and their money. City needs further economic growth and development, which is capable of giving cannabis. " Whatever it was, but a referendum on the status of cannabis in the district came to the unilateral opinion of the benefits and costs associated with the legalization of medical direction konoplevodstva. In a local newspaper published an article which addressed the question of the museum. The newspaper offers to suspend construction of the museum project and initiate an independent analysis of the effects of the legalization of the use of psychoactive cannabis in the county. This kind of work volunteered to conduct the research team of the local branch of the University of Colorado. Reporters also noted that before building the museum, it is worth to wait for stabilization of the formation of hemp industry in the county. "The building is now a museum of hemp would be tantamount to the construction of the railway museum immediately after the completion of construction of the first railway: still quite early to say about the future of this industry in our district."
Despite all the troubles that have arisen around the issue of the legalization of cannabis cultivation, the initiative group of the museum dedicated to the creation of the project, consisting of locals proceeded to the selection of land for the construction and does not intend to abandon their plans. On the basis of their plans, the museum should open its doors to the first visitors in early summer 2018. It is clear that the opening of the museum of hemp would be too bright culmination of protracted debate on the status of cannabisa in Pueblo County.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
There is an electronic version of the "Ukrainian hemp museum" Since 2011. As far as this kind of promotion of hemp culture among the population of our country effectively, can be seen in the attendance rooms (sections of) the electronic version of national hemp museum, and it is considerable. Given the fact that the city Glukhov was once the capital of Zaporizhia Army and the administrative center of the Little Russian province, is an important historical center of the eastern Polissya and modern cultural center of Ukraine, as well as the fact that the last 85 years the national konoplevodstvo based on the achievements of the specialists of the Institute of Bast Crops, perhaps it makes sense to consider the establishment of a national cannabis museum in this particular locality.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua