Another Reason to Love China

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It's an article about two pounds of very old marijuana.  Two pounds of very old marijuana found in a tomb in the desert in China.

My favorite quote is from the caption next to a picture of a rubber-gloved scientist tweezing a bit of the weed into a container for him to bring home and "test" over the weekend:

Scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it's evident that the man was buried with a lot of it.

I only smoked the greens in China a couple of times.  It was not locally sourced.  It was American.  A friend smuggled it back from a medical marijuana farm in Mendocino County, CA. 

And there is a very serious story behind it.  One that involves a lawyer, outsourcing the manufacture of clipping and gardening tools to a factory in Shenzhen, political dilemmas, cash in buried mason jars, socially responsible investors, and a SWAT team. 

It's probably best told when everyone listening is stoned.