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“Underground” Hemp Store Opens in Adams Morgan!
What is Capitol Hemp?
Washington, DC has Capitol Hill, and now it has Capitol Hemp, a new store dedicated to offering the highest quality products made from Industrial Hemp.
Location?
Capitol Hemp is located underground at 1802 Adams Mill Road, NW Washington, DC 20009. Capitol Hemp is at the North West Corner of 18th Street and Columbia Rd in the Heart of the Adams Morgan Neighborhood.
How to get there?
Capitol Hemp is metro accessible via the Red Line Adams Morgan stop. Just cross the Calvert Street bridge and walk three blocks to Adams Morgan. Parking is also available on the street
What do we sell?
Capitol Hemp is proud offer unique clothing and accessories for women and men made from earth's greatest natural fiber, industrial hemp. In addition to clothing, Capitol Hemp offers a wide variety of products made from hemp including soaps, lotions, paper, non-dairy milk, shoes, original works of art, and much much more. Some brands we carry include Livity, Two Jupiters, Jungmaven, Swirl Space, Ecolution, Mountains of The Moon, Envirotextiles, Sweet Grass, Hempys, The Hempest, Hemp Hoodlum, Canaan Fair Trade, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, Black Spot Sneakers, Hemp Sisters, Living Harvest and more.
Capitol Hemp also sells orignal works of art by the DC51 artist collective as well as hand blown glass tobacco pipes and vaporizers. Click here to see images of some of our unique works of artisan glass.
Why shop Capitol Hemp?
Even though hemp products are hard to find, we sell all the leading hemp brands in one place. You save the planet and your pocketbook when you buy in a real store. Capitol Hemp is the first store in America to use renewable non-toxic hemp fiber board to construct in store displays.
I thought hemp was illegal?
Nope, hemp is not marijuana and is legal to import and sell in the US. However, it is the only crop U.S. farmers may not grow which is legally imported. Most hemp comes from Canada, China and Europe, but many compnaies make hemp products in the United States. Visit The Hemp Industries Association at www.thehia.org for more information. Learn more about the struggle to bring back hemp farming in the United States at www.votehemp.com .
Contact?
The store phone is 202-332-8191. You can also email alan(at)capitolhemp(dot)com,capitolhemp@gmail.com, adam(at)capitolhemp(dot)com Our fax number is 202-332-8193
Check out Capitol Hemp's MySpace page.
Hours?
We are closed Mondays. Open Tuesday to -Thursday. 12- noon to 9pm, Friday & Saturday 12 noon - to 10 Pm, Sunday open at 1pm and close at 7pm.
Logo and store design by RVLTN Design of Washington, DC. All displays made of environmentally friendly renewable hemp board.
GRAND OPENING PRESS RELEASE
Capitol Hemp Clothing and Accessories Offers Wide Variety of Natural Hemp Products
WASHINGTON, DC - Legal to import in a variety of forms, earth friendly industrial hemp products will finally be available in one place for the first time in Washington, DC. Organized by an activist/entrepreneur duo, with help from their friends, Capitol Hemp, a new hemp clothing and accessories store located underground at 1802 Adams Mill Road, NW #B opened on Sunday, April 20, 2008.
The new store, the first in the nation to be built out of hemp fiber board, is also the capital’s first boutique to offer a wide variety of hemp products including men, women and children’s clothing, shoes, bags, cosmetics, paper, twine, food, books and much more.
“Capitol Hemp showcases the versatility of Industrial Hemp to the extreme,” says Capitol Hemp co-founder Adam Eidinger who also serves as Communication Director for the non-profit advocacy group Vote Hemp, which works to educate members of Congress about why they should allow US farmers to grow non-drug industrial hemp. Eidinger adds, “I’ve worked on this issue for 7 years, so it was time to be in the business and not just talk about it for a living. I expect it will help our lobbying effort.”
Capitol Hemp will sell clothing designs by Livity, Swirlspace, Ecolution, Two Jupiters, Satori Hemp, Mountains of the Moon, Envirotextiles, Hemp Hoodlamb, The Hempest, Sweet Grass, Hemp & Chocolate, Hemp Sisters as well as shoes by Simple and Black Spot. Hard to get items like the complete line of organic and fair trade hemp soaps, lotions and balms by Dr. Bronner’s will be well stocked. Other items for sale include organic non-dairy hemp milk by Manitoba Harvest, delicious snack bars by Ruth’s Hemp Foods, Hempzels (hemp pretzels) and items by Hempola and Nutiva.
Capitol Hemp worked with DC’s Cesar Maxit of RVTLN Design over four months to rehabilitate the underground location. Carpenters Joe Wood, Bryan Dorman, and Luciano Silva built the hemp fiber board displays, counters and shelves using Hemp Trader’s newly developed non-toxic fiber board. The eco-conscious board uses eucalyptus bark in for the glue in contrast to common formaldehyde laden wood chip board. Custom store lighting and audio was installed by PDC systems.
Industrial hemp now accounts for over $300 million in annual US sales and has always been used by human civilization for key items such as sails, rope and clothing. Today, hemp is on the leading edge of what it means to ‘go green’ because it can replace petrochemical based products in many different ways. Hemp is an excellent substitute for cotton which is the most heavily sprayed crop on earth. Hemp paper reduces pressure on forests and is renewable every year, while hemp food is rich in protein and omega 3 essential fatty acids. Capitol Hemp is a proud member of the Hemp Industries Association http://www.thehia.org and Vote Hemp http://www.VoteHemp.com .
Mosiac by Jill Blankespoor
Stencil of Hemp Fields by Cesar Maxit