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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. Well there goes my idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From TFA: "Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success."

  2. Re:Intersting Tomb Contents by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is amusing to note the overwhelmingly strong bias toward "ritual and/or religious" explanations for just about anything we dig up about ancient societies. It makes you wonder what the future will make of us.