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The origins of cannabis smoking: Chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs

Cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants in East Asia, grown for grain and fiber as well as for recreational, medical, and ritual purposes. It is one of the most widely used psychoactive drugs in the world today, but little is known about its early psychoactive use or when plants under cultivation evolved the phenotypical trait of increased specialized compound production. The archaeological evidence for ritualized consumption of cannabis is limited and contentious. Here, we present some…

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June 18, 2019

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Phytochemical and genetic analyses of ancient cannabis from Central Asia.

Russo EB, Jiang HE, Li X, Sutton A, Carboni A, del Bianco F, Mandolino G, Potter DJ, Zhao YX, Bera S, Zhang YB, Lü EG, Ferguson DK, Hueber F, Zhao LC, Liu CJ, Wang YF, Li CS. Russo EB, et al. J Exp Bot. 2008;59(15):4171-82. doi: 10.1093/jxb/ern260. J Exp Bot. 2008. PMID: 19036842 Free PMC article.

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