World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found

jage2 writes "Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly 'cultivated for psychoactive purposes,' rather than as fibre for clothing, or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany. The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China."

Re:Bill & Ted?

[skam240]

And by "blond part" I assume you mean Bill S. Preston Esquire. Jesus... uncultured swine around here.

Re:Uh-huh.

[forkazoo]

I wonder what technique they used to come up with the qualitative measurement "relatively high".

A highometer was used to run a standard highometric analysis on a scale from "not" to "curiously." On the standard scale, "relatively" is the seventh mark on the indicator.

Street value

[Anonymous Coward]

Not that I know anything about... *cough* yes, we'll just tick the 'Anonymous' box, yes, there we are.

In the Chicago area, for 'Pretty Good' cannabis, you're talking between $200 and $400 per ounce, conservatively. 789 grams is approximately 27.8 ounces, that's $5,400-$10,800 total value, conservative estimate, depending on quality relative to today's standards.