Abstract
Cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants in East Asia, grown for grain and fiber as well as for recreational, medical, and ritual purposes. It is one of the most widely used psychoactive drugs in the world today, but little is known about its early psychoactive use or when plants under cultivation evolved the phenotypical trait of increased specialized compound production. The archaeological evidence for ritualized consumption of cannabis is limited and contentious. Here, we present some of the earliest directly dated and scientifically verified evidence for ritual cannabis smoking. This phytochemical analysis indicates that cannabis plants were burned in wooden braziers during mortuary ceremonies at the Jirzankal Cemetery (ca. 500 BCE) in the eastern Pamirs region. This suggests cannabis was smoked as part of ritual and/or religious activities in western China by at least 2500 years ago and that the cannabis plants produced high levels of psychoactive compounds.
Thanks for posting these guys. If I weren't in the middle of a move I'd be all over these, only saw two repeats I think but I can't properly peruse now.
Hi,
Does anybody have any publications or papers from Heslop-Harrison or any other related to the induction of flowering in Cannabis, the role of daylength, plant age or florigen and so on. Basically trying to undersand how flowering triggers and the maturation time could influenced. Or relation between maturation time and cannabinoid/terpene production.
I'm having some dificulties to find some of those:
Heslop-Harrison J, Heslop-Harrison Y. 1969. Cannabis sativa L. In: Evans LT, ed. The Induction of Flowering. Macmillan, 205-226.
Heslop-Harrison J, Heslop-Harrison Y. 1970. The state of the apex and the response to induction in Cannabis sativa. In: Bernier G, ed. Proceedings of the Symposium on Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Floral Induction, Liege, Belgium. Longmans Green, 3-26.
Heslop-Harrison J, Heslop-Harrison Y. 1958. Studies on flowering-plant growth and organogenesis - III. Leaf shape changes associated with flowering and sex differentiation in Cannabis sativa. Proc.Roy.Irish Acad. 59: 257-283.
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