Worlds Oldest Marijuana Stash Found

A tomb in a remote part of China has revealed the oldest stash of weed to be discovered to date.

The cashe is over 2,700 years old and was buried along side an apparent shaman. It's rare but not uncommon for bodies/mummies in China to be found having blonde hair and blue eyes, in short, of seemingly western origin, which this one seemed to be. Such mummies usually came from the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.

This particular mummy was buried with what was found to be, a 789 gram stash of marijuana which was still green although had lost its unique odour.

"To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent," says a newly published paper, whose lead author was American neurologist Dr. Ethan B. Russo.

Many ancient Egyptian and Greek sites have also offered evidence of marijuana use in ye olden times yet this one, recently discovered, is the oldest discovered and, it seems, was purposely cultivated for pharmacological use.

"The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success.

Researchers also could not determine whether the cannabis was smoked or ingested, as there were no pipes or other clues in the tomb of the shaman, who was about 45 years old."

The region of China where the tomb is located, Xinjiang, is considered an original source of many cannabis strains worldwide.

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