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Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana
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Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana
By Dean Beeby, THE CANADIAN PRESS

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 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.

"To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent," says the newly published paper, whose lead author was American neurologist Dr. Ethan B. Russo.

Remnants of cannabis have been found in ancient Egypt and other sites, and the substance has been referred to by authors such as the Greek historian Herodotus. But the tomb stash is the oldest so far that could be thoroughly tested for its properties.

The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success.

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.

The large cache was contained in a leather basket and in a wooden bowl, and was likely meant to be used by the shaman in the afterlife.

"This materially is unequivocally cannabis, and no material has previously had this degree of analysis possible," Russo said in an interview from Missoula, Mont.

"It was common practice in burials to provide materials needed for the afterlife. No hemp or seeds were provided for fabric or food. Rather, cannabis as medicine or for visionary purposes was supplied."

The tomb also contained bridles, archery equipment and a harp, confirming the man's high social standing.

Russo is a full-time consultant with GW Pharmaceuticals, which makes Sativex, a cannabis-based medicine approved in Canada for pain linked to multiple sclerosis and cancer.

The company operates a cannabis-testing laboratory at a secret location in southern England to monitor crop quality for producing Sativex, and allowed Russo use of the facility for tests on 11 grams of the tomb cannabis.

Researchers needed about 10 months to cut red tape barring the transfer of the cannabis to England from China, Russo said.

The inter-disciplinary study was published this week by the British-based botany journal, which uses independent reviewers to ensure the accuracy and objectivity of all submitted papers.

The substance has been found in two of the 500 Gushi tombs excavated so far in northwestern China, indicating that cannabis was either restricted for use by a few individuals or was administered as a medicine to others through shamans, Russo said.

"It certainly does indicate that cannabis has been used by man for a variety of purposes for thousands of years."

Russo, who had a neurology practice for 20 years, has previously published studies examining the history of cannabis.

"I hope we can avoid some of the political liabilities of the issue," he said, referring to his latest paper.

The region of China where the tomb is located, Xinjiang, is considered an original source of many cannabis strains worldwide.


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This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

Albert Einstein

Edited by veggie (11/27/08 09:20 PM)

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Cannashroom]
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Interesting! :smile:

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Cannashroom]
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Seeds ?


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:cool: Fair is Fair :devil:

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Brainiac]
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Brainiac said:
Seeds ?


Yea, it does seem a little odd that they would say the thc percentage was high and that seeds were present.  But I would assume they mean the percentage is high when speaking relatively about other findings.

Either way though I would love to have some of that.  I would frame it probably.  What a story-piece to have in one's house. 
"Oh this!? It's just the oldest marijuana in existence."

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: somebody716]
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it still had THC in it..
i wonder what the smoke would be like.

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: somebody716]
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i wanna smoke some.


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If you want to get a hold of me, my email address is in my profile. Just click on my screen name. I got banned from using private messages cause I didn't follow the rules... :frown:

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: PilzeEssen]
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Wanting to smoke can, of course, be an initial feeling, but come on if you really had the opportunity would you?  It would be destroying a priceless artifact. 

I would feel bad, very bad.

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: somebody716]
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i would be like doooode i feel like the oldest stoner everr.
lol but yeah bro, you do make good sense, i like it

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Cannashroom]
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if i were the archaeologist on staff at the dig I would definately insist upon definitive field testing  :sherlock:  :gethigh:



yeah tho, I bet the smoke would be incredibly harsh-- one time when my friends dad passed away we were cleaning out the closet and found a sack of chronic that was at least 15 years old-- white buds of unknown origin his pops had stashed years and years before and forgotten.  We know he forgot it there because it was in his combat boots from 'nam and if he'd known it was there he would've smoke it up.

that was the oldest weed stash I've ever found-- and yeah, we smoked it all in a bong!! :bongload:  It was pretty dang harsh- cough weed, and very stoney

I think once the tomb stash was identified somebody had to try a couple binggers of that stuff!!!


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:sun:Dreams are the fuel of the soul:sun:

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: somebody716]
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somebody716 said:
Wanting to smoke can, of course, be an initial feeling, but come on if you really had the opportunity would you?  It would be destroying a priceless artifact. 

I would feel bad, very bad.


Theres like 1.7 lbs of it... I wouldn't feel bad about sparking a bowl.


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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: DragonChaser]
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ya its insane how much that guy had


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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Cannashroom]
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Awesome story.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Madtowntripper]
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Amazing story indeed.  This is one of the more interesting articles of the week.


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Manoa said:
I need to stop spending all my money on plants and take up a cheaper hobby, like heroin. :lol:

Looking for Rauhocereus riosaniensis seeds or live specimen(s), :pm: me if you have any for trade

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: SuperD]
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would be awesome if they actually got the seed to grow. it would win the cannabis cup of the millennia.


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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Groomies]
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im pretty certain that there is another active compound in weed that counteracts the effects of THC, and the presence gets stronger over time so you may not get high at all but that's not the point, its the principle of smoking the oldest weed in existence


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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Invisible_Woe]
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Hes was a Shaman, If he grew some plants that 1.7Lbs wouldn't be that much, You'd want to smoke up a lot in the afterlife, wouldn't you?


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"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.

Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

Albert Einstein

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: Cannashroom]
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What is it with pot smokeing whiteguys and travelling the world? Seems it has been going on for alot longer than modern age.

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: MisterMuscaria]
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MisterMuscaria said:
What is it with pot smokeing whiteguys and travelling the world? Seems it has been going on for alot longer than modern age.


Hell yes! bury my ass with a tomb full of drugs!!


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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: rodfarva]
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That's freaking awesome. Yeah, marijuana for the afterlife would be pretty bomb.

It's funny that man has used this substance for medicinal and spiritual purposes for thousands of years, but today's governments declare it illegal. Are we not allowed to use something that our ancestors have? Especially if it's been proven to relieve certain medical conditions? I mean, seriously...


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"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter."  --Max Planck

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Re: Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana [Re: tyler_0_durden]
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I would totally load up my Volcano with a bowl of that just for the experience!

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