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2,700 Year Old Stash of Marijuana Unearthed By Archaeologists
Ace of Spades HQ —
2,700 Year Old Stash of Marijuana Unearthed By Archaeologists Three quarters of a kg. 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. The ...
Again, they tested it. . . how, exactly?
Silent Running —
... . Or, being a light haired, blue eyed caucasian in China (even North Western China) - Road Trip! The article doesn’t specify methods, but personal sampling probably isn’t an ‘accepted’ research methodology. At any rate, the article lacks any references to ‘musty basement’ or ‘piney’ properties of the sample, although I’m sure they were just angling for the genetics research grant funding with the germination experiments. It’s notable, the interest taken by JWF and ...
A find
Cold Fury —
... man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China. The marijuana was found to have a relatively high content of THC, the main active ingredient in cannabis, but the sample was too old to determine a precise percentage. Researchers also could not determine whether the cannabis was smoked or ingested, as there were no pipes or other clues in the tomb of the shaman, who was about 45 years old. Well, the brownies had probably all decomposed by then. (Via JWF )
