28 Oz of 2700 year old Marijuana unearthed

[MikeMike]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460425,00.html

Duuuuuude! The world's oldest stash of marijuana has been found in far western China, according to an article in the Journal of Experimental Botany.

An ancient Caucasian people, probably the Indo-European-speaking Yuezhi whose fair-haired mummies keep turning up in Xinjiang province, seem to have buried one of their shamans with a whopping 789 grams of high-potency pot 2,700 years ago.

That's about 28 ounces of killer green bud, worth perhaps $8,000 at today's street prices, and enough to keep Harold and Kumar happy for a couple of days.

"It was common practice in burials to provide materials needed for the afterlife," lead author Ethan B. Russo, a practicing neurologist and prominent medicinal-marijuana advocate based in Missoula, Mont., tells the Canadian Press. "No hemp or seeds were provided for fabric or food. Rather, cannabis as medicine or for visionary purposes was supplied."

But the researchers couldn't tell if the weed was meant to be smoked or eaten. No pipes, bongs or rolling papers were found in the tomb.

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus relates how the Scythians, Iranian-speaking nomads who roamed the steppes to the west of the Yuezhi in the first millennium B.C., liked to throw marijuana onto bonfires to induce trancelike states. It's possible the buried shaman followed similar practices

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[Eli]

That's aweome.

And whoa! at the pictures. That second picture is actually a picture of the 2,700 year old bud? No way.

How could it be preserved so well? That looks like a picture of a yet to be harvested plant, and it looks like really good stuff! I thought the potency increase in marijuana has been a recent thing, as in the last 40 years.

Regular wild ditchweed doesn't look like that. 😕

I suppose its possible they bred their own potent strains...

 

[MikeMike]

I have no idea, that stuff looks amazing. I wish i could find stuff like that !

but $8k for 1.75lb is very expensive, it better be great.

 

[Shawn]

hahahah sweet

 

[spidey07]

"It was common practice in burials to provide materials needed for the afterlife"

LOL!

So, dude...what do you want in your tomb? Weapons? Gold? Family artifacts?

Nah, just the bud. That's all I need.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
I have no idea, that stuff looks amazing. I wish i could find stuff like that !

but $8k for 1.75lb is very expensive, it better be great.

It's not hard to find stuff like that in places like Oregon, and it runs about 3800$/lb... But....

I'm honestly skeptical, about that one picture. It wouldn't surprise me if it was legit, but it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't, either. I wonder if they got a file photo mixed up and put the wrong caption.

That just boggles my mind. I have never heard that potent strains of marijuana existed before human meddling.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Wow, it appears that they had ziplock baggies even 2700 years ago.

Did anyone light up to see if it was still potent?

 

[compuwiz1]

After 2700 years wouldn't it taste like ass?

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
After 2700 years wouldn't it taste like ass?

Some poor researcher must make the sacrifice in the name of science answer this question.

Maybe the grant money will cover the pizza.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Wow, it appears that they had ziplock baggies even 2700 years ago.

Did anyone light up to see if it was still potent?

I Lol'd at that too.

And I can't imagine this being so potent as the article claims. Well, it's possible. Beer had been around long before this time period, and not that they knew exactly how to make it (that yeast was what was doing the funtime work), but that type of cultivation did have a knowledge basis to it.

Agriculture existed, so I suppose it's possible they were mixing strains, cultivating for bud production. A doubt that it's anywhere close to what comes out of Holland, though.

 

[yhelothar]

no national geographic for me in so cal 🙁
i have charter HD cable too.
anyone put it up on a tube?

 

[Xylitol]

are you sure those pictures aren't computer-generated? 😉

 

[Leros]

Its good to know that the Fox writers have a sense of humor.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
I have no idea, that stuff looks amazing. I wish i could find stuff like that !

but $8k for 1.75lb is very expensive, it better be great.

Doesnt look that great. Visit OC sometime 😉

 

[bwatson283]

From Fox news........... Total BS

 

[OOBradm]

"That's about 28 ounces of killer green bud, worth perhaps $8,000 at today's street prices, and enough to keep Harold and Kumar happy for a couple of days."

uh.... 28 oz for a couple of days? seriously?

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: OOBradm

"That's about 28 ounces of killer green bud, worth perhaps $8,000 at today's street prices, and enough to keep Harold and Kumar happy for a couple of days."

uh.... 28 oz for a couple of days? seriously?

They like, totally love to get high, man.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

the pictures have been "improved"

http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/...X=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

This lack of terpenoid volatiles supports the physical observation that the plant
material lacked the herbal smell traditionally associated
with cannabis

The considerable amount of cannabis present (789 g) without any large stalks or
branches would logically imply a pooled collection rather
than one from a single plant. Importantly, no obvious
male cannabis plant parts (e.g. staminate flowers, not
infrequently observed in Indian herbal cannabis, or bhang
(Russo, 2007) were evident, implying their exclusion or
possible removal by human intervention, as these are
pharmacologically less psychoactive

All of these observations are consistent with strains of cannabis with
a high THC content and in an alternative taxonomy
suggests it should be assigned to Cannabis indica