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03 Dec 08 - 02:30 PM (#2507048) Subject: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Wesley S Two pounds worth. And it's still green. Gobi desert stash |
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03 Dec 08 - 02:39 PM (#2507056) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: gnu From the link... "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." Yeah. They got high and that is when the thought hit them that they could make shit outta that shit... man... shiiiit! |
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03 Dec 08 - 03:26 PM (#2507091) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: JohnInKansas They also mentioned that after 2,700 years the material found had virtually zero remaining potency. (A warning to get some fresh goods occasionally?) The comment that the stash stash "is quite similar to what's grown today" suggests that Chinese archaeologists aren't quite up to speed on some of the newer genetically-modified/hybrid varieties currently popular (or that some modern users/sellers greatly exaggerate the potency of their "stuff"). John |
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03 Dec 08 - 03:51 PM (#2507099) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Bert I think that the statute of limitations may be up on that stash. |
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03 Dec 08 - 03:56 PM (#2507104) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Wesley S I wonder what it was called back then. Gobi Gold? |
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03 Dec 08 - 09:25 PM (#2507301) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: fretless A new find, perhaps, but an old story. Herodotous wrote about the ancient Scythians getting high in "vapor" baths -- they'd burn the hemp in enclosed tents (sort of like standing inside of a reefer!), and excavations of tombs in teh Altai mountains of Central Asia during the 20th century recovered braziers used for burning the pot along with residue from the plants. |
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03 Dec 08 - 09:55 PM (#2507319) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: artbrooks Dude was Irish (or at least Celtic)...kinda figures... |
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03 Dec 08 - 09:58 PM (#2507321) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: GUEST,dianavan "Before the burial, someone had carefully picked out all of the male plant parts, which are less psychoactive..." Who are these Gobi people? |
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03 Dec 08 - 10:53 PM (#2507346) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: JohnInKansas "This individual was buried with ... a kongou harp." It figures - - - he was a musician(?). John |
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04 Dec 08 - 12:01 AM (#2507375) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Lonesome EJ Ancient dude was a friggin viper, man! He was a Celtic-speakin, harp-playin, bongaphile! and I say...right on, Mummy guy! Long may you twist em up and burn em down up in your Gobi man heaven! |
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04 Dec 08 - 12:23 AM (#2507381) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Ebbie Ah, Beaubie...? |
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04 Dec 08 - 07:50 AM (#2507528) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Charley Noble What I find even more amazing is that the pot was found stashed in a "zip-locked" bag (see photo)! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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04 Dec 08 - 08:19 AM (#2507549) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Bobert Hey, ya'll... I did not have sex with that... (No, Boberdz... Wrong denial...) Sorry, (cough), I don't know nuthin' about that weed... I wasn't even around 2700 years ago... Plus, I din't know the guy all that well... (cough...) B;~) |
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04 Dec 08 - 10:09 AM (#2507636) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: VirginiaTam I can't beleive that weed was for smoking. There were no munchies found among the grave goods. I mean, that would be really bad planning. |
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04 Dec 08 - 12:01 PM (#2507721) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: PoppaGator Ancient beliefs among those folks in the Gobi may have held that the dead, in their disembodied state, would not need to, or even be able to, eat ~ but that they would certainly appreciate catching a nice buzz. |
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04 Dec 08 - 12:12 PM (#2507734) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: PoppaGator By the way ~ I'm particularly astonished that they could determine that the corpse was that of a "blue-eyed" man. The color of mummies' skin is not preserved ~ they're all very dark black regardless of their orignal skin-tone in life. I would have thought that eyeballs would be even more subject than epidermal tissue to decomposition, or at least drastic alteration, over the centuries. |
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04 Dec 08 - 12:33 PM (#2507758) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: VirginiaTam back to the food thing... it is well known that food stuffs were included in the grave goods across centuries, continents and cultures. If this dude was afforded prime weed by his tribe, then he damn sure was entitled to a few Yak treats. Time for tea! |
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04 Dec 08 - 12:50 PM (#2507770) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: open mike yep he had the munchies for sure... |
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04 Dec 08 - 06:13 PM (#2508099) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Bobert P-Gator, That was a typo... It meant to read "blurry eyed man"... B;~) |
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05 Dec 08 - 01:47 PM (#2508822) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: PoppaGator Bobert: Aha! Now I see, much more clearly! ;^) |
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05 Dec 08 - 02:22 PM (#2508848) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: gnu Yeah... I see it too. Apologies to George Carlin, "Toledo Window Box." |
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05 Dec 08 - 05:36 PM (#2509016) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: Cluin Did they have Zig-Zag papers back then? How about mallomars? |
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06 Dec 08 - 11:25 AM (#2509348) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds oldest pot stash - busted From: olddude I heard that they also found a Grateful really Dead CD next to the stash! It was the groups early ancestors, The leader was named Mohammad Garcia |