Dude.. they found my stash

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[SIZE=2]My apologies if anyone finds this inappropriate, and if so, please delete it - but I thought that this was really interesting.

http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/544684

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2,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb

      		                Stash seems to have been intended for buried shaman to use in the afterlife
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	         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.