Saturday, June 15, 2019

Pass The Brazier: Early Evidence Of Cannabis Smoking Found On Chinese Artifacts

Pass The Brazier: Early Evidence Of Cannabis Smoking Found On Chinese Artifacts
Scientists exhumed 10 wooden braziers from eight tombs at the ancient Jirzankal Cemetery in what is now western China. Many of the braziers held stones that were apparently heated and used to burn cannabis plants.

Humans have been smoking pot to get high since the first millennium B.C. Archaeologists have found early evidence of cannabis use from wooden bowls exhumed from ancient tombs in western China.

(Image credit: Xinhua Wu/Science Advances)



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