Pass The Brazier: Early Evidence Of Cannabis Smoking Found On Chinese Artifacts
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.
by Pien Huang
Jun 15, 2019
2 minutes
People have been smoking pot to get high for at least 2,500 years. Chinese archaeologists found signs of that when they studied the char on a set of wooden bowls from an ancient cemetery in western China.
The findings are some of the earliest evidence of cannabis used as a drug.
"We've known, a botany professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who reviewed published in , "Now we know the ancients also valued the plant for its psychoactive properties."
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