Thursday, November 27, 2008

2,700 year old Shaman pot...

Interesting article in today's Toronto Star about the oldest known dope stash found in a Chinese tomb.

Some chronic quotes:
Stash seems to have been intended for buried shaman to use in the afterlife

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 entire article is here.

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