Chonging in China: Researchers find enormous ancient weed stash

Scientists have discovered over 28 ounces of marijuana in a 2,700-year-old tomb in Xinjiang, and their findings have been published in the British peer-reviewed Journal of Experimental Botany. From Canada's Globe and Mail:

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.

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

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