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“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 fiber 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 extremely dry conditions and alkaline soil acted as preservatives, allowing a team of scientists to carefully analyze the stash, which still looked green though it had lost its distinctive odor.
"To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent," says the newly published paper, whose lead author was American neurologist Dr. Ethan B. Russo.”
Click here for the whole weird tale. (Although it does fail to explain how a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian came to be a shaman of the Gushi 2,700 years ago.)
The secret word is Inhale
Shit, the time has change!
ReplyDeleteToday Xingiang area is restricted place of chinese nuclear tests, Asian Maralinga. No more nice herbs there.
But here there's a lot!
In 'campagne' you may see an older people and even their domestic animals; cows, pigs, goats, turkeys, cats, dogs, mouses, horses and sheep running around and laughing... and pissing on this world.
I can't help but wonder if any of the researchers twisted up a spliff to test for 'residual potency'.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that myself.
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