Nathaniel Mauka,
Staff Writer
Waking Times
Continuing cannabis prohibition becomes even more preposterous in
light of a recent archeological discovery. Many pot promoters are
already well aware that the
forefathers of the United States utilized cannabis and
hemp to become fruitful. Many more are cognizant that the
false war on drugs was a way to squelch would-be activists who were fighting against war in Nixon’s time. Looking outside of the
trillion-dollar prohibition industry into the archives of history, we can confirm that cannabis was not just accepted, but revered.
A
2,500-year-old
cannabis burial shroud was recently unearthed along the Silk Road in
Turpan, China. Archeologists found a grave thought to belong to a
35-year-old male who was wrapped in cannabis leaves. Some of the plants
were up to a meter long, and researchers believe they were used
ritually.
Radiocarbon dating was used to verify the age of the mummy.
Archaeologist, Dr. Hongen Jiang, of the Graduate University of
Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and his colleagues described the
discovery as “extraordinary” in the journal
Economic Botany.
As National Geographic explains,
“The burial is one of 240 graves excavated at the Jiayi cemetery in Turpan, and is associated with the Subeixi culture
(also known as the Gushi Kingdom) that occupied the area between
roughly 3,000 to 2,000 years ago. At the time, Turpan’s desert oasis was
an important stop on the Silk Road.
Cannabis plant parts have been found in a few other Turpan
burials, most notably in a contemporaneous burial in nearby Yanghai
cemetery discovered nearly a decade ago, which contained close to two pounds of cannabis seeds and powdered leaves.”
