A find
I have little to nothing to say about this one.
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 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)
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Yeah, but what about the pizza boxes and Pink Floyd CDs?
The Twinkies, however, still looked bakery-fresh.
(They should look for incense burners, censers, that sort of thing - or just guess that it may have been tossed into a fire. Wouldn't be the first time an aromatic herb/wood was tossed into a fire/brazier.)