A new agriculture museum devoted to cannabis is set to open in Atlantic City, as the destination in New Jersey, US, turns to marijuana in an attempt to significantly boost tourism.
Once complete, the museum will feature a 125,000sq ft (11,612sq m) indoor grow site and warehouse and will host cannabis-themed interactive exhibitions, educational displays and pop-up events.
“Internally, the facility will resemble a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility with clean rooms and sterile environments,” reads a land use application, which adds that the public would be allowed inside, “in an organised manner,” for tours, similar to that of a behind-the-scenes brewery tour.
Jon Cohn, of cannabis dispensary High Rollers, is driving the project, which he hopes will offer visitors a glimpse into how cannabis is cultivated and extracted.
“People don’t know how extraction works or even what it is,” he said, adding that his goal is for the museum to have the same impact on the cannabis industry that Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark has had on the chocolate industry.