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High Times in China: 2700 Year-Old Weed Discovered

The Canadian (of course) Press reports that the oldest stash of weed was recently discovered in northwestern 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.

Man, those ancient Chinese were always ahead of the times.

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WAR ON DRUGS

A video clip from a documentary about the war in Afghanistan against the Taliban that shows the Afghan soldiers enjoying and passing around a joint before joining a gun battle.   The ghost of Jerry Garcia saves the life of one soldier at the end of the video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kXR-D5hmf8]

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