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Title: World's oldest marijuana stash: Two pounds of still-green weed found in a 2,700-year-old Gobi Desert grave
Source: NBC News
URL Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28034925/ ... h-totally-busted/#.V-0y38vwsWO
Published: Sep 29, 2016
Author: Jennifer Viegas
Post Date: 2016-09-29 13:05:36 by Hondo68
Keywords: potent psychoactive properties, were getting high, seeds cultivated strain
Views: 1912
Comments: 14

Image: A stash of cannabis found in the 2,700-year-old grave.
David Potter  / Oxford University Press
Stash for the afterlife: A photograph of a stash of cannabis found in the 2,700-year-old grave of a man in the Gobi Desert. Scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it's evident that the man was buried with a lot of it.

Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world's oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany.

A barrage of tests proves the marijuana possessed potent psychoactive properties and casts doubt on the theory that the ancients only grew the plant for hemp in order to make clothing, rope and other objects.

They apparently were getting high too.

Lead author Ethan Russo told Discovery News that the marijuana "is quite similar" to what's grown today.

"We know from both the chemical analysis and genetics that it could produce THC (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase, the main psychoactive chemical in the plant)," he explained, adding that no one could feel its effects today, due to decomposition over the millennia.

Russo served as a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Botany while conducting the study. He and his international team analyzed the cannabis, which was excavated at the Yanghai Tombs near Turpan, China. It was found lightly pounded in a wooden bowl in a leather basket near the head of a blue-eyed Caucasian man who died when he was about 45.

"This individual was buried with an unusual number of high value, rare items," Russo said, mentioning that the objects included a make-up bag, bridles, pots, archery equipment and a kongou harp. The researchers believe the individual was a shaman from the Gushi people, who spoke a now-extinct language called Tocharian that was similar to Celtic.

Scientists originally thought the plant material in the grave was coriander, but microscopic botanical analysis of the bowl contents, along with genetic testing, revealed that it was cannabis.

The size of seeds mixed in with the leaves, along with their color and other characteristics, indicate the marijuana came from a cultivated strain. Before the burial, someone had carefully picked out all of the male plant parts, which are less psychoactive, so Russo and his team believe there is little doubt as to why the cannabis was grown.

What is in question, however, is how the marijuana was administered, since no pipes or other objects associated with smoking were found in the grave.

"Perhaps it was ingested orally," Russo said. "It might also have been fumigated, as the Scythian tribes to the north did subsequently."

Although other cultures in the area used hemp to make various goods as early as 7,000 years ago, additional tomb finds indicate the Gushi fabricated their clothing from wool and made their rope out of reed fibers. The scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it's evident that the blue-eyed man was buried with a lot of it.

"As with other grave goods, it was traditional to place items needed for the afterlife in the tomb with the departed," Russo said.

The ancient marijuana stash is now housed at Turpan Museum in China. In the future, Russo hopes to conduct further research at the Yanghai site, which has 2,000 other tombs.


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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)

World's oldest marijuana stash: Two pounds of still-green weed found in a 2,700-year-old Gobi Desert grave

That's a good place for it.

rlk  posted on  2016-09-29   13:43:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: hondo68 (#0)

Are any suspects in custody?

Pinguinite  posted on  2016-09-29   13:45:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: rlk (#1)

That's a good place for it.

Yippee, so the Egyptians had their own "burning man", lighting one up now in remembrance of the pharaoh.

calcon  posted on  2016-09-29   14:46:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: calcon (#3) (Edited)

That's a good place for it. [A grave in the Gobi Desert].

Yippee, so the Egyptians had their own "burning man", lighting one up now in remembrance of the pharaoh.

What do Egyptians smoking pot have to do with pot found in a grave in the Gobi Desert?

And you said this “level of stupidity” can’t live on with the “Goofy old fucks” not long for this world.

Gatlin  posted on  2016-09-29   15:25:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Gatlin (#4)

eat sh*t or blow an alaskan, dipsh*t

calcon  posted on  2016-09-29   16:05:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Gatlin (#4)

sorry, but i should have just said EAT SH*T, i realize your butt bother yukon died of aids so I shouldn't have done that.

calcon  posted on  2016-09-29   16:08:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: hondo68 (#0) (Edited)

Just one more reason to ignore Big Stupid Government, people who would only get a government job and their lobbyist-purchased bullshit laws.

Hank Rearden  posted on  2016-09-29   17:38:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: calcon (#5)

Come on, Calcon, tell us why and how you are associating Egyptians with the Gobi Desert.

And at the same time, tell us that all that pot smoking has not destroyed brain cells.

Gatlin  posted on  2016-09-29   18:17:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Gatlin (#8)

And at the same time, tell us that all that pot smoking has not destroyed brain cells.

probably lost more reading your cop ass kissing posts

calcon  posted on  2016-09-29   19:01:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Gatlin, L7, Square man, Phoenix Arizona 1949, calcon (#8)

associating Egyptians with the Gobi Desert


The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party

Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)

Hondo68  posted on  2016-09-29   19:15:25 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: calcon (#9)

Gatlin  posted on  2016-09-29   19:26:45 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Gatlin (#11)

Thanks

calcon  posted on  2016-09-29   19:33:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: calcon (#12)

You are welcome.

Gatlin  posted on  2016-09-29   19:55:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: hondo68 (#10)

" Sam the Sham & The Pharohs "

LOL.

I saw them live. I was not a fan, but my girlfriend at the time was, so I took her to see them.

Looooooong time ago, LOL!

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Stoner  posted on  2016-09-30   7:44:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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