Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberian tomb

Re:Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberi... by bajard on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:43AM (#50413291)

Cannabis traces have also been found in ancient Egyptian mummies, many millennia before Columbus, despite being an American plant.

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Re:Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberi... by papua_is_being_ on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:06AM (#50413499)

> Cannabis traces have also been found in ancient Egyptian mummies, many millennia before Columbus, despite being an American plant

The genus Cannabis originated in Central Asia (specifically the northeastern Tibetan Plateau region) and shares a family (Cannabaceae) with its closest related sister genus, Humulus (hops) (McPartland, 2018; Kovalchuk et al., 2020).

References Kovalchuk, I., Pellino, M., Rigault, P., van Velzen, R., Ebersbach, J., Ashnest, J. R., Mau, M., Schranz, M. E., Alcorn, J., Laprairie, R. B., McKay, J. K., Burbridge, C., Schneider, D., Vergara, D., Kane, N. C., & Sharbel, T. F. (2020). The genomics of Cannabis and its close relatives. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 71, 713–739. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-081519-040203 Cited by: 225

McPartland, J. M. (2018). Cannabis systematics at the levels of family, genus, and species. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, 3(1), 203–212. https://doi.org/10.1089/can.2018.0039 Cited by: 513

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