New Research Uncovers Prehistoric Use of Cannabis
Around 10,000 years ago prehistoric humans began using cannabis, a new research study has found, and not just in one small corner of the globe.
The psychoactive plant, which has a multitude of other uses in addition, seems to have come into use in both Eastern Europe and Japan sometime between 11,500 and 10,200 years ago according to new archaeological evidence gathered by a team of researchers from Germany’s Free University of Berlin. Pavel Tarasov, Tengwen Long, and their colleagues at the university say that the fibers, fruit and pollen of the cannabis plant have been showing up in the archaeological record for quite some time, but this is the first survey to put the pieces together to provide a bigger picture of just how widespread the use of cannabis was at such an early time.
Originally, prevailing thought concerning the use and spread of cannabis believed it began in...
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