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Friday, November 28, 2008

Drugs Um, Dude!

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:15 AM

OTTAWA – 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...

(Thanks, Aaron.)

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Pot from 700 BC? Now thats what I call BC bud!

Posted by Marcel Duchump on November 28, 2008 at 11:47 AM

I'd hit that.

Posted by Bong! on November 28, 2008 at 11:48 AM

Um, in the tradition of not fully trusting anything I read on the interwebs, I'm withholding judgment on this until they can explain how they know that a 2,700 year old corpse had blue eyes.

Posted by switzerblog on November 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM

3, dna testing?

Posted by ellarosa on November 29, 2008 at 7:01 PM

@3: There's also the fact that the difference between brown eyes vs grey/blue eyes is presence vs absence of melanin in the iris, which I'm sure is testable even after 2,700 years.

I take greater issue with the use of the phrase "Caucasian". "Shaman of the Gushi culture" (Gushi being a region of Henan province) sounds separated enough from Caucasus culture (i.e. the mountain range from Turkey to Russia) that the word is hardly appropriate.

Posted by Chronos on November 30, 2008 at 3:38 AM