Showing posts with label archeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archeology. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2009

The first pothead lit up way before 420 BC

To the list of things that Chinese people did first (detonated fireworks, navigated with a compass, traded with paper money, and printed books), add "smoked pot."

A marijuana stash was discovered in a 2,700-old Chinese tomb. Well, OK, he was a white Chinese guy and he probably would've claimed that he was just holding it for a friend, but it still counts.

The full academic yatter is in the Journal of Experimental Botany. I wonder how grad students who submit articles to the journal "test" experimental botany. Newspapers also reported the archeological find.