From The Seattle Times:
Looks like very early residents of China had a penchant for smoking marijuana.
Archaeologists who dug up a 2,700-year-old tomb of a shaman near Turpan out in far west Xinjiang province found a curious pouch. News reports call it the oldest stash of marijuana on Earth.
The cannabis was "superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions," according to an article in the scientific Journal of Experimental Botany.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008466900_chinapot04.html
