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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…
(Thanks, Aaron.)
Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer... More by Christopher Frizzelle
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Pot from 700 BC? Now thats what I call BC bud!
I’d hit that.
Um, in the tradition of not fully trusting anything I read on the interwebs, I’m withholding judgment on this until they can explain how they know that a 2,700 year old corpse had blue eyes.
3, dna testing?
@3: There’s also the fact that the difference between brown eyes vs grey/blue eyes is presence vs absence of melanin in the iris, which I’m sure is testable even after 2,700 years.
I take greater issue with the use of the phrase “Caucasian”. “Shaman of the Gushi culture” (Gushi being a region of Henan province) sounds separated enough from Caucasus culture (i.e. the mountain range from Turkey to Russia) that the word is hardly appropriate.