For over 50 years, Richard Jergenson has been collecting, archiving and preserving many Cannabis Culture volumes, magazines and artifacts, all in great condition to share with all of us. From resources of 1960’s through 1980’s Marijuana News, Art, and legalization news until the legalization process in California, we are bringing them to the public view. Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, Barcelona, Vancouver, Denver, Seattle, and Detroit all have Cannabis Culture Museums– the Emerald Triangle needs one too!

“This is fabulous! …great job conveying the diversity of a unique cannabis culture archive for the ages.

– Pebbles Trippet, a longtime cannabis advocate

The Collection

The collection is comprised of books, magazines, newspapers, posters, newsletters, vinyl albums, clothing and other objects pertaining to the culture of cannabis and its history, including many unique and rare items.

“The Emerald City Museum”

Pop-up Exhibit

January 1st 2020 — May 1st, 2020

Currently Museum is open by appointment

The first of many Pop-Up’s in Mendocino County. Come visit this extensive collection and many of the local cannabis companies in the county! Located in the Rexal Building, Willits Ca 95490

If you can’t live in the past, and the present outweighs everything, you can visit here when the moment arrives!

Annie Waters

As Ursula Leguin once wrote in her classic novel The Left Hand of Darkness, ‘It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end'”

The collection is comprised of books, magazines, newspapers, posters, newsletters, vinyl albums, clothing and other objects pertaining to the culture of cannabis and its history, including many unique and rare items.

Further, one of the collectors was a co-founder of the “Proto Pipe” business, a unique self contained pipe for smoking cannabis developed fifty years ago. The collection includes archival materials and artifacts illustrating the half-century history of the Proto Pipe, with original artwork, ads, business cards, fan mail, business ledgers, and more.  We intend to thoughtfully expand the categories listed here.

Significance of the Collection

 In recent years, cannabis has been legalized in various states, including California, and it has found renewed purposes, such as in the medical marijuana arena. With cannabis now coming out of the shadows, the public will benefit from a museum setting and archive where they can find opportunities to learn about and debate the often controversial role of cannabis in our society. 

This collection provides many thematic approaches to understanding the varied history and uses of cannabis, from ancient medicinal uses, the role of hemp in clothing and industrial uses, the psychoactive qualities of marijuana as it has appealed to musicians, artists, and other creative people over time, its place in the back-to-land and solar power movements, and the legal and medical conflicts that have also marked cannabis over time. 

The elders who initiated the counter culture of cannabis in the 1950s and ’60s are already passing away. This museum project would ideally fund the collection of oral histories, as well as popularize the anecdotes and stories already preserved in the archives.

Finally, new generations who are growing, refining, and using cannabis plants and who care for its developing culture would become better resources themselves when they can provide better education about the origins and history of cannabis.

Contact Us!

counterculturecannabisarchive@gmail.com

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If you would like more information regarding the collection and the history feel free to contact us!

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Willits CA, 95490

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