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World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-a-little-dry dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Bill & Ted? by skam240 · · Score: 2, Informative

    And by "blond part" I assume you mean Bill S. Preston Esquire. Jesus... uncultured swine around here.

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  2. Re:Uh-huh. by forkazoo · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wonder what technique they used to come up with the qualitative measurement "relatively high".

    A highometer was used to run a standard highometric analysis on a scale from "not" to "curiously." On the standard scale, "relatively" is the seventh mark on the indicator.

  3. Street value by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not that I know anything about... *cough* yes, we'll just tick the 'Anonymous' box, yes, there we are.

    In the Chicago area, for 'Pretty Good' cannabis, you're talking between $200 and $400 per ounce, conservatively. 789 grams is approximately 27.8 ounces, that's $5,400-$10,800 total value, conservative estimate, depending on quality relative to today's standards.