Photo via Facebook.

Photo via Facebook.

Capitol Hemp has now been back in business for a year as of yesterday, and they’re celebrating with a seed share this Sunday and a big party next weekend.

“For us it’s a milestone. It was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be. The city has become very competitive,” says store co-owner Adam Eidinger. “We were spending all of our energy on passing the initiative and not working on the store, but In the last couple months business has picked up.”

The summer has been rough for Capitol Hemp: a water main break caused flooding, forcing the store to close for days.

The Adams Morgan store, which Eidinger co-owns with Alan Amsterdam, had previous locations close nearly four years ago, following police raids and employee arrests.

The location isn’t the only big change for the new iteration of Capitol Hemp. “With Capitol Hemp 1, we had to play this game about tobacco. We had to say everything was for tobacco and legal herbs. That game is over,” says Eidinger. “Now, people can tell us exactly what they’re doing.”

Because they can be upfront about selling weed accoutrements, the store can also offer services like bong cleaning and cannabis testing.

The current version of Capitol Hemp has been seeing an increased popularity of “headies,” which Eidinger describes as “pipes that are more works of art than something you want to smoke out of regularly.” They range in price from the mid-hundreds to thousands of dollars. “It’s a reflection of a strong economy and legal marijuana that people want to smoke out of something a little classier, not what you’ve been smoking out of since college.”

But the legalization of weed still does not allow for its sale. That’s where events like Sunday’s seed share come in.

The giveaway will occur on the sidewalk outside the store, and the seeds are “donated by individuals who love us,” according to Eidinger. On August 13, Capitol Hemp is throwing a grand re-opening party.

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