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 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 odour.
FIND MORE INTERESTING ODD BITS OF INFO AT THE BLOG, "FRACTAL ENLIGHTENMENT."
More bits and pieces from this one blog post: Vatican's warning that mobile phones are bad for the soul, A woman in Australia who hates snakes walks into her bedroom with 15 pythons, Witchcraft may find a place in India's school curriculum, and the woman who became so addicted to plastic surgery she would self inject into her face with a needle [SEE VIDEO BELOW].
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thank you for participating. Your comment will be reviewed and we might decide to publish it if it is actually intelligent and/or amuses us.