# Dude.. they found my stash

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dude-they-found-my-stash/277493/1 "2008-12-12T16:13:47Z")

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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](http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3).thestar.com/sciencetech/article/544684

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> [@TheStar.com](#):
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> 2,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb
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> Stash seems to have been intended for buried shaman to use in the afterlife
> Nov 27, 2008 01:23 PM             
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> [Comments on this story](http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/544684#Comments) [IMG]http://www.thestar.com/TopletsResources/UserRatingComments2/images/icoComment.gif[/IMG] (99) 				 		 	 
> 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.
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> 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.