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So, you may have heard that the oldest evidence of combusted cannabis was found in China this week. We took our reading all the way back to the published findings in Science Advances, and were delighted to find this quote from the researchers, who paraphrase Snoop Dogg (No stress, no stems, no seeds, no sticks! Some of that real sticky icky. ) :
“It is possible that high-elevation populations of a naturally higher THC–producing variety were recognized and targeted by people in the Pamir region, possibly even explaining the prominence of ritual sites in the high mountains. Moreover, the content of THC also varies across plant parts, decreasing from the bract, flower, leave, stem, root, and seed in turn (10, 23). The lack of seeds in the burners may suggest that nonfloral plant parts were burned, or it may suggest that seeds were removed from the floral structures because they do not contain the desired secondary compounds.”
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