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Huge Stash of Marijuana Found in Ancient Tomb
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460425,00.html
 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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LOL. I can see the archaeologists looking at each, "Ummm....should we spark some up? Strictly for scientific purposes of course."
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Dude...those were totally my relatives.
That's like....my inheritance man.
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hemp grew wild all over the county where i grew up. good luck getting a buzz off that stuff.
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Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. Sweeeeeeeeeet.
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They weren't really sure until they found the 2700 year old bag of Doritos next to it.
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Probably somewhere between Hope & Mena, Arkansas,
....just be wary of the black helicopters
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Interesting that there's a "Weed Kill" advertisement at the bottom of this page.
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they found a Toots and the Maytals CD in there too.
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http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/ Would it be the Nov 2008 article? http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/search?fulltext=cannabis&x=16&y=10 EDIT: Here it is, the full and the abstract. http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/59/15/4171?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabis&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT Quote:
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"...All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine..."
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Did it come in the zip-loc bag (in the photo)?
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