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China Figured Out Cannabis Thousands of Years Ago, Then We Made It Illegal.

Chinese researchers at Shandong University just published a study in the Journal of Archaeological Science that does something straightforward: it tells the truth about cannabis’s place in human history. Using phytolith analysis — the study of microscopic plant silica structures found in soil — the team examined 132 samples from two Late Neolithic settlements in the Shandong province. What they found was not marginal or incidental. Cannabis was one of the five grains.

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