World’s oldest stash found in Chinese tomb
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pm | By: Radical Russ
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.
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.
2,700 years of humans using cannabis, 70 years of cannabis prohibition. What has happened to cannabis in the past seventy years to make it so dangerous to the species that’s used it for millennia? Sounds like the ancient Chinese had the “skunk” – why is it modern man can’t have it again?
Topics: ancient, archaeology, China
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That has to be the most valuable bag of marijuana on the planet. Imagine what that would fetch off ebay LOL. Can you get any pictures of it? I would love to see how it looks after 2700 years of aging.
This cant be true “The marijuana was found to have a relatively high content of THC” because only todays weed has a high content of THC according to our pot experts, John Walters and President Finished George Bush.
This is a awesome story. Pretty cool they found my cousin of 2700 years ago.