{"id":48457,"date":"2026-11-07T01:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T06:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48457"},"modified":"2026-11-07T01:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T06:03:22","slug":"people-were-using-cannabis-for-psychoactive-purposes-at-least-2800-years-ago-study-suggests-ap-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48457","title":{"rendered":"People were using cannabis for psychoactive purposes at least 2,800 years ago, study suggests | AP News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new study suggests people were using cannabis for psychoactive purposes at least 2,800 years ago. Archaeologists found evidence in a Siberian tomb, indicating cannabis use 300 years earlier than previously known in China.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/8bfa54e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4786x3191+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fa3%2F14%2F5ed9760022a4b33d225d5045c614%2F0f454d9c127a4832ba0a0900b4187174\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.501272762874486;width:252px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cannabis-siberia-herodotus-caspari-switzerland-2af72e5afb915d835b233f14b20ad185\">People were using cannabis for psychoactive purposes at least 2,800 years ago, study suggests | AP News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests people were using cannabis for psychoactive purposes at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[39,150,655],"class_list":["post-48457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cannabis","tag-china","tag-history","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48459,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48457\/revisions\/48459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}