GhostOfCaptSpaulding
06-09-2009, 05:37 PM
[offsite:3ocbilad]World's oldest marijuana stash totally busted
Two pounds of still-green weed found in a 2,700-year-old Gobi Desert grave
Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world's oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Okay, just a quick interdiction here: this substance wasn't labeled "marijuana" until the 1930's when that asshole Anslinger began the drive for prohibition.
Carry on...
[offsite:3ocbilad]A barrage of tests proves the marijuana possessed potent psychoactive properties and casts doubt on the theory that the ancients only grew the plant for hemp in order to make clothing, rope and other objects.
They apparently were getting high too.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Sweet!
[offsite:3ocbilad]Lead author Ethan Russo told Discovery News that the marijuana "is quite similar" to what's grown today.
"We know from both the chemical analysis and genetics that it could produce THC (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase, the main psychoactive chemical in the plant)," he explained, adding that no one could feel its effects today, due to decomposition over the millennia.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
How the fuck would they know one can't get a buzz from this ancient shit unless someone actually fires it up?
Wait, maybe someone did... :bong:
[offsite:3ocbilad]Russo served as a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Botany while conducting the study. He and his international team analyzed the cannabis,...[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Oh now the article is calling it "cannabis!"
Fucking MSM and it's smirking hidden agendas...
[offsite:3ocbilad]...which was excavated at the Yanghai Tombs near Turpan, China. It was found lightly pounded in a wooden bowl in a leather basket near the head of a blue-eyed Caucasian man who died when he was about 45.
"This individual was buried with an unusual number of high value, rare items," Russo said, mentioning that the objects included a make-up bag, bridles, pots, archery equipment and a kongou harp. The researchers believe the individual was a shaman from the Gushi people, who spoke a now-extinct language called Tocharian that was similar to Celtic.
Scientists originally thought the plant material in the grave was coriander, but microscopic botanical analysis of the bowl contents, along with genetic testing, revealed that it was cannabis.
The size of seeds mixed in with the leaves, along with their color and other characteristics, indicate the marijuana came from a cultivated strain. Before the burial, someone had carefully picked out all of the male plant parts, which are less psychoactive, so Russo and his team believe there is little doubt as to why the cannabis was grown.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Now, in the same paragraph, they call it marijuana and cannabis.
[offsite:3ocbilad]What is in question, however, is how the marijuana was administered, since no pipes or other objects associated with smoking were found in the grave.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Oops, now it's marijuana again...
[offsite:3ocbilad]"Perhaps it was ingested orally," Russo said. "It might also have been fumigated, as the Scythian tribes to the north did subsequently."[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Yeah, or maybe they stuffed it up their ass like you should do with your slanted MSM agenda...
[offsite:3ocbilad]Although other cultures in the area used hemp to make various goods as early as 7,000 years ago, additional tomb finds indicate the Gushi fabricated their clothing from wool and made their rope out of reed fibers. The scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it's evident that the blue-eyed man was buried with a lot of it.
"As with other grave goods, it was traditional to place items needed for the afterlife in the tomb with the departed," Russo said.
The ancient marijuana stash is now housed at Turpan Museum in China. In the future, Russo hopes to conduct further research at the Yanghai site, which has 2,000 other tombs.
msnbc | World's oldest marijuana stash totally busted (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28034925/)[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Fucking MSM; at least the story got out, here's the straight dope (sorry) on this story:
[offsite:3ocbilad]Phytochemical and genetic analyses of ancient cannabis from Central Asia
Abstract
The Yanghai Tombs near Turpan, Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region, China have recently been excavated to reveal the 2700-year-old grave of a Caucasoid shaman whose accoutrements included a large cache of cannabis, superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions. A multidisciplinary international team demonstrated through botanical examination, phytochemical investigation, and genetic deoxyribonucleic acid analysis by polymerase chain reaction that this material contained tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component of cannabis, its oxidative degradation product, cannabinol, other metabolites, and its synthetic enzyme, tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase, as well as a novel genetic variant with two single nucleotide polymorphisms. The cannabis was presumably employed by this culture as a medicinal or psychoactive agent, or an aid to divination. To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent, and contribute to the medical and archaeological record of this pre-Silk Road culture.
[spoiler:3ocbilad][attachment=0:3ocbilad]jexbotern260f02_4c.jpeg[/attachment:3ocbilad][/spoiler:3ocbilad]
Photomicrographs of ancient cannabis. (A) Photograph of the whole cannabis sample being transferred in laminar flow hood. (B) Photomicrograph of leaf fragment at low power displaying non-glandular and amber sessile glandular trichomes. Note retention of chlorophyll and green colour, scale bar=100 µm. (C) Higher power photomicrograph of a single sessile glandular trichome. At least 4 of its 8 secretory cells are clearly visible on the right, and the scar of attachment to the stype cells in the centre, scale bar=25 µm. (D) Low power photomicrograph of a cannabis achene (‘seed’) including the base with a non-concave scar of attachment visible, scale bar=1 mm.
Oxford Journals | Phytochemical and genetic analyses of ancient cannabis from Central Asia (http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/59/15/4171)[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Looks good to me, hell, I'd smoke it!
Ain't science grand?
Edit to "Spoiler" Image; it was too damn big.
Two pounds of still-green weed found in a 2,700-year-old Gobi Desert grave
Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world's oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Okay, just a quick interdiction here: this substance wasn't labeled "marijuana" until the 1930's when that asshole Anslinger began the drive for prohibition.
Carry on...
[offsite:3ocbilad]A barrage of tests proves the marijuana possessed potent psychoactive properties and casts doubt on the theory that the ancients only grew the plant for hemp in order to make clothing, rope and other objects.
They apparently were getting high too.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Sweet!
[offsite:3ocbilad]Lead author Ethan Russo told Discovery News that the marijuana "is quite similar" to what's grown today.
"We know from both the chemical analysis and genetics that it could produce THC (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase, the main psychoactive chemical in the plant)," he explained, adding that no one could feel its effects today, due to decomposition over the millennia.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
How the fuck would they know one can't get a buzz from this ancient shit unless someone actually fires it up?
Wait, maybe someone did... :bong:
[offsite:3ocbilad]Russo served as a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Botany while conducting the study. He and his international team analyzed the cannabis,...[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Oh now the article is calling it "cannabis!"
Fucking MSM and it's smirking hidden agendas...
[offsite:3ocbilad]...which was excavated at the Yanghai Tombs near Turpan, China. It was found lightly pounded in a wooden bowl in a leather basket near the head of a blue-eyed Caucasian man who died when he was about 45.
"This individual was buried with an unusual number of high value, rare items," Russo said, mentioning that the objects included a make-up bag, bridles, pots, archery equipment and a kongou harp. The researchers believe the individual was a shaman from the Gushi people, who spoke a now-extinct language called Tocharian that was similar to Celtic.
Scientists originally thought the plant material in the grave was coriander, but microscopic botanical analysis of the bowl contents, along with genetic testing, revealed that it was cannabis.
The size of seeds mixed in with the leaves, along with their color and other characteristics, indicate the marijuana came from a cultivated strain. Before the burial, someone had carefully picked out all of the male plant parts, which are less psychoactive, so Russo and his team believe there is little doubt as to why the cannabis was grown.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Now, in the same paragraph, they call it marijuana and cannabis.
[offsite:3ocbilad]What is in question, however, is how the marijuana was administered, since no pipes or other objects associated with smoking were found in the grave.[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Oops, now it's marijuana again...
[offsite:3ocbilad]"Perhaps it was ingested orally," Russo said. "It might also have been fumigated, as the Scythian tribes to the north did subsequently."[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Yeah, or maybe they stuffed it up their ass like you should do with your slanted MSM agenda...
[offsite:3ocbilad]Although other cultures in the area used hemp to make various goods as early as 7,000 years ago, additional tomb finds indicate the Gushi fabricated their clothing from wool and made their rope out of reed fibers. The scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it's evident that the blue-eyed man was buried with a lot of it.
"As with other grave goods, it was traditional to place items needed for the afterlife in the tomb with the departed," Russo said.
The ancient marijuana stash is now housed at Turpan Museum in China. In the future, Russo hopes to conduct further research at the Yanghai site, which has 2,000 other tombs.
msnbc | World's oldest marijuana stash totally busted (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28034925/)[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Fucking MSM; at least the story got out, here's the straight dope (sorry) on this story:
[offsite:3ocbilad]Phytochemical and genetic analyses of ancient cannabis from Central Asia
Abstract
The Yanghai Tombs near Turpan, Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region, China have recently been excavated to reveal the 2700-year-old grave of a Caucasoid shaman whose accoutrements included a large cache of cannabis, superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions. A multidisciplinary international team demonstrated through botanical examination, phytochemical investigation, and genetic deoxyribonucleic acid analysis by polymerase chain reaction that this material contained tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component of cannabis, its oxidative degradation product, cannabinol, other metabolites, and its synthetic enzyme, tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase, as well as a novel genetic variant with two single nucleotide polymorphisms. The cannabis was presumably employed by this culture as a medicinal or psychoactive agent, or an aid to divination. To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent, and contribute to the medical and archaeological record of this pre-Silk Road culture.
[spoiler:3ocbilad][attachment=0:3ocbilad]jexbotern260f02_4c.jpeg[/attachment:3ocbilad][/spoiler:3ocbilad]
Photomicrographs of ancient cannabis. (A) Photograph of the whole cannabis sample being transferred in laminar flow hood. (B) Photomicrograph of leaf fragment at low power displaying non-glandular and amber sessile glandular trichomes. Note retention of chlorophyll and green colour, scale bar=100 µm. (C) Higher power photomicrograph of a single sessile glandular trichome. At least 4 of its 8 secretory cells are clearly visible on the right, and the scar of attachment to the stype cells in the centre, scale bar=25 µm. (D) Low power photomicrograph of a cannabis achene (‘seed’) including the base with a non-concave scar of attachment visible, scale bar=1 mm.
Oxford Journals | Phytochemical and genetic analyses of ancient cannabis from Central Asia (http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/59/15/4171)[/offsite:3ocbilad]
Looks good to me, hell, I'd smoke it!
Ain't science grand?
Edit to "Spoiler" Image; it was too damn big.