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Re: Ancient Cannabis 'Burial Shroud' Discovered in Desert Oasis by davidmorgan on Sunday, 10 November 2019

I'm guessing there must be a connection with the Scythians here (mentioned by Herodotus as having cannabis "vapour baths"). In 1929, Professor S. I. Rudenko excavated a Pazyryk tomb in the Altai Mountains where he found "a bronze cauldron filled with burnt marihuana seeds ... and some shirts woven from hemp fibre and some metal censors designed for inhaling smoke which did not appear to be connected with any religious rite. To Rudenko, the evidence suggested that inhalation of smoldering marihuana seeds occurred not only in religious context, but also as an everyday activity in which Scythian women participated alongside the men." - Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years by E.L. Abel.

See also "Scythians & Cannabis" on the Herb Museum website.

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