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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 28, 2008 - 05:48pm PT
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Thought some ST'ers might like this.
(Research article here: http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/59/15/4171);
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081127.wstash1127/BNStory/Science/home
Researchers find oldest-ever stash of marijuana
DEAN BEEBY
The Canadian Press
November 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM EST
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....
...The marijuana was found to have a relatively high content of THC, the main active ingredient in cannabis, but the sample was too old to determine a precise percentage.....
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Chris2
Trad climber
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Nov 28, 2008 - 05:54pm PT
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Yea I bet that team of scientist did some,"careful analysis..."
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2008 - 06:11pm PT
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"I bet that team of scientist did some,'careful analysis'..."
"yep.......high content alright...."
edit: ooops, photo credit: locker.
sorry locker, if i could get my hands on some of that vintage stuff, would send you and cosmic some to "analyse"
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Nov 28, 2008 - 06:54pm PT
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420 smoke weed every millennium amirite?
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Dwain
Trad climber
Apple Valley, California
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Nov 28, 2008 - 07:26pm PT
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They FOUND my STASH!!!
I forgot where I put it,
and I have been wondering if anyone would ever FIND it!!!!
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 28, 2008 - 08:02pm PT
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High Times should have a field day with this report!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 28, 2008 - 08:18pm PT
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Next to a blue eyed caucasian male?
In China?
MAN that guy went a long way to score!
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 28, 2008 - 08:22pm PT
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"The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,”
in the good old days, they would never call you a "stoner"
I sure miss 'em...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 28, 2008 - 08:27pm PT
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The rulers of China and Sinkiang will not be pleased about the "blue eyed Caucasian" bit. One of their enduring imperial fantasies is that that area was settled by the Han, and has been ruled by them for 2,000 years or more. Archaeologists and historians would mostly agree that the area has been a cross-roads for millenia, that it was settled from the west, and that it has only intermittently been ruled by the Han.
The Middle Kingdom does still have its peculiar beliefs about its place in the world.
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Dwain
Trad climber
Apple Valley, California
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Nov 28, 2008 - 09:33pm PT
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"The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,”
It was MINE!!!
I'm Blue Eyed and Caucasion.
In Fact;
I was born about Ten thousand years ago.
There ain't nothing in this world,
that I don't know.
I saw Peter, Paul, and Moses,
Playing ring around the Roses,
and I'll whip the guy who says,
it isn't so.
Cosmic/Dwain
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Nov 28, 2008 - 09:38pm PT
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dwain you beat me to it...
man...pounds buried with the guy...
why do i get the feeling i know him ?
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 28, 2008 - 09:41pm PT
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Order, Please.
Dwain, you are still alive, yes?
How dank was it?
scientists with data lean forward expectantly
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2008 - 09:42pm PT
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"Next to a blue eyed caucasian male?
In China?"
I spent a few years in China, and for awhile in the mid '80s travelled clandestinely to some places closed to foreigners. I speak decent Mandarin and sometimes would tell people i was from Xinjiang, the desert province where this ancient stash was found. I'm partly of Norwegian ancestry and blue eyed, but my hair and eyebrows were dyed black, and often my story seemed believable (!). I remember some fisherman in Qinghai province on the edge of the Tibetan plateau laughing when they heard this, saying, "Ha, ha...when we first saw you, we thought you were a foreigner". There are dozen or so non-Han ethnicities in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), some with red or fair hair, and blue eyes. Check the photo below of a Uighur girl.
I've been to some tombs very close to the "stash" location and seen 800 year old mummies, shriveled up from the very dry air, all their features still visible. Ground temperatures reach 140 degrees in the desert (the Taklamakan) and you can see snowy 5000m mountains, the Tien Shan, 70 miles to the north. Very old underground tunnels bring snow meltwater all the way to the oases, or it would evaporate before it got there. Quite an amazing area.
Original image from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Uyghur_girl.jpg
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Dwain
Trad climber
Apple Valley, California
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Nov 28, 2008 - 09:53pm PT
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"Order, Please.
Dwain, you are still alive, yes?
How dank was it? "
Yeah I'm still alive MisterE.
I tell ya, They don't grow as good of weed
as they used to!!!!
Hey Pagan;
How ya doin?
Miss ya, you old man.
Isn't it a bummer they found OUR OLD stash
we buried so many years ago?
I wonder if they found the orange peels we put in the stash to keep it FRESH???
Cosmic/Dwain
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Nov 28, 2008 - 10:42pm PT
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hehe tastes as good as the day we stashed it i bet ;-)
kunlun_shan your travels sound amazing - my sister did something similar in japan, where her grasp of the language allowed her to go places foreigners just don't go...
china is huge. i'd love to see it. well, some of it...
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