Siberian Royal Burial Mound Points to Psychoactive Cannabis Use 2,800 Years Ago, About Three Centuries Earlier Than Known
Nature World News | 09.11.2026 18:52Hundreds of wild cannabis seeds and strands of preserved human hair from a royal burial mound in southern Siberia point to people using the plant for its mind-altering effects about 2,800 years ago. If the interpretation holds, it would push back the earliest confirmed psychoactive use of cannabis by roughly 300 years.
