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SUBMITTER: Ren M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6561734 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ren Meng M Tang Zihua Z Tang Zihua Z Wu Xinhua X Spengler Robert R Jiang Hongen H Yang Yimin Y Boivin Nicole N
Science advances 20190612 6
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 ...[more]