2,500-Year-Old Skeleton Found Wrapped in Marijuana

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[Quote]The man in his mid-thirties was laid to rest with 13 Cannabis plants placed diagonally across his chest.

Archaeologists in northwestern China have unearthed a 2,500-year-old skeleton wrapped in a "shroud" made up of well-preserved marijuana.


Found during an investigation of the Jiayi Cemetery in Turpan, which houses 240 ancient tombs, the burial contained "an extraordinary cache" of 13 Cannabis plants.

The three-foot long, locally produced plants, were arranged across the chest of a man who died at around age 35.

"The Cannabis plants were placed above the body trimly, in a way that suggests ritual-medicinal purposes," Hongen Jiang of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, told Discovery News.

The man was laid down on a wooden bed with a reed pillow under the head, while 13 nearly whole female Cannabis plants were deposited diagonally across his body, with the roots and lower parts of the plants grouped together and placed below the pelvis.

"The stems and foliage were arranged in a parallel alignment extending upwards to just under the chin and along the left side of the face," Jiang and colleagues wrote in the journal Economic Botany.

Radiocarbon dating of the tomb's contents, including the cannabis plants, indicates the burial occurred sometime between 2,400 and 2,800 years ago.

While all of the plants had roots attached, most of the flowering heads had been cut off. The few flowers that remained were nearly ripe and contained some immature fruit, suggesting the plants were collected

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What a time

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Snoop Dog's Great^1000 Grandfather.