World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 1, 2008 @11:19AM 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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Damn! by Jane+Q.+Public · 2008-12-01 18:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

I thought NOBODY would look there.

Sigh. Time to start over. Where are my shovel and dust brush?
Re:Also explains... by fferret · 2008-12-01 23:01 · Score: 0, Redundant

+1, would read again.

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