Meilan Solly is Smithsonian magazine's associate digital editor, history. Website: meilansolly. Participants likely used wooden bowls known as braziers to burn cannabis and release its mind-altering vapors Xinhua Wu In B.
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The War on Drugs is a phrase used to refer to a government-led initiative that aims to stop illegal drug use, distribution and trade by dramatically increasing prison sentences for both drug dealers and users. The movement started in the s and is still evolving today. Excavations on the site began in , and among the artefacts removed were 10 wooden brazier fragments, containing stones with clear signs of burning.
The team suspected that these had a ritual purpose, and extracted residue from the wood and stones to see if they could determine the chemical composition of what had lain within. One of the braziers as it was found in a gravesite. Xinhua Wu. Using an identification technique called gas chromatrography-mass spectrometry , the team started to analyse organic material from one of the bowls.
In the very first test, biomarkers for cannabis showed up on the internal charred layer. Hide Caption. Thailand marijuana festival has visitors on a high.
As Thailand became the first in Southeast Asia to legalise marijuana for medical use last year, many Thais are drawn to a northeastern town for its debut weed festival.
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