GENEVA (AP) — People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought — at least 2,800 years ago, a new study suggests.
Archaeologists who led a dig at a monumental tomb in Siberia said they turned up evidence of the earliest known use of cannabis for psychoactive purposes.
The findings point to cannabis consumption at least 300 years earlier than previously known use in neighboring China.
Ancient drug use has long intrigued scholars. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about inhabitants of Central Asia smoking cannabis around 440 B.C., and recent archaeologists have found the seeds in tombs across its highlands.
The team from Germany, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland said analysis of hair in the royal tomb where cannabis seeds turned up sheds new light on the plant’s role in ancient societies.
Okay but was it good stuff or just ditch weed?
It would be so fucking rad if they could cultivate those seeds just to see how potent they are. Yeah I know modern weed is insanely strong compared to stuff from even the 60s but it’d be cool to find out nonetheless.
“If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution — then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.” – Aldous Huxley
This Huxley fellow may be onto something
Oh he’s on a lot of things
SOMA? 🫦
they come with their own rolling papers.
hey, it’s better than eating I guess https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/why-did-people-start-eating-egyptian-mummies
you could grow cannabis in Siberia in 440 BC? Must have been the well known superior Siberian hydroponics techniques of 440 BC
I was told that hair could only be tested up to 90 days!
If you die within that time it wouldn’t have be able to be processed out?
Imagine all the things they tried to smoke before finding something good
Yo I’m so mummified right now.
Should post this to Highly Interesting.
Mummies on gummies
Puff puff pass man, stop bogarting the good shit.
Now that’s what I call a landrace strain.
