Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery

Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery

An ancient cemetery in western China may hold the answer to a question asked by many a stoner: where on Earth did humans first smoke weed to get high?

Learn more about the cemetery in this 2019 paper in Science Advances.

Keep up with Rob Spengler’s archaeobotany lab here.


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