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World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found
jage2 writes "Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly 'cultivated for psychoactive purposes,' rather than as fibre for clothing, or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China."
You'd have to be high to think it was a good addition.
After researchers tested the stash it seemed seemed like 2700 years had passed. In reality it was only 42 minutes.
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Of course the researchers subsequently burned it all... in portions of 5g.
How did they know he had blue eyes? Now, bloodshot, I would understand.
> Sources also say that after testing the researchers' hands "looked awesome."
They call them fingers, but I've never seen them fing.
Oh, wait. There they go.
Oh yes, the tests included genetic testing and radio-carbon dating. Good to point that out. I'll just speculate what other tests you could do with 2700 year old weed. On a perhaps related note, since they couldn't use spectroscopy or whatever to determine the precise percentage of THC, I wonder what technique they used to come up with the qualitative measurement "relatively high".
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Keith Richards was greatly relieved it was finally found although he can't recall being in China at the time.
The tomb also contained bridles, archery equipment and a harp...
The ancient equivalent of car keys, a gun, and an electric guitar.
Considering how much weed there was I say this was
probably an ancient rock star and not a shaman.
Hey man, if they can bring back a mammoth, they can bring back a pot plant.
Well that's good news! All these years I've been called a pot head and come to find out through the miracle of botany, I am a shaman!
"The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China. The man had a very large smile on his face."
"Researchers needed about 10 months to cut red tape barring the transfer of the cannabis to England from China, Russo said." This is an obscene amount of time for research related materials to have to wait...they should have just stuffed it into some teething rings and imported them through normal distribution channels.
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Wow, they really did plan ahead for a rainy day didn't they? I mean, that's a fair bit of shrubbery to be hauling about by anyone's measure.
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Why those mongols kept invading till someone built that big nasty wall up between backyards. I can see it now:
Mongol: Pssst, you got a yuan bag?
Wall Guard: Oy! Get out of here, we don't do that at this tower, try two doors down.
Mongol: Pssst, is Fey Shong Wei about? He always hooks me up.
Wall Guard: I said piss off! I got my boss coming for an inspection in a bit.
Mongol: Fine fine, sissy girly man, no wonder you need this big wall to keep out a few baked horsemen!
Wall Guard: Get back to your tent you damned hippie! And get a REAL job! And a HAIRCUT! And have a SHOWER!
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He's dead!
Take note kids.
you ever go crawling around ancient Chinese shaman's tombs....... on weed?