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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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 Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: Property of ancient Vancouverian found in China! |
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Or perhaps his future children were to be from Vancouver?
Hhhahhaha
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460425,00.html
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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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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| I never notice any bud in the coffins in Vancouver |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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One of my best friends' sister who drowned in a lake at 30 years old was buried with a large bag of pot, rolling papers, a brass pipe, and a joint laid on her chest since she was a hippy stoner and would always jokingly say to everyone, "I know you got it, where's is it? come off of it."
Caucasian stoners in China? Sure, Russia is nearby and Asia is landlocked with Europe. A few adventurous Caucasians did make it to Asia long ago and yes, ancient peoples around the world loved to get stoned, even the Koreans and Japanese. The difference? No police with laws saying you go to jail and get executed like they have today for toking marijuana. America changed the world in making marijuana illegal and today she's the biggest toker there is of the stuff. |
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