Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis [uh, hello, there's one sure way to test it! -- ed.]. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success
"The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China."
Wonder if they found a surfboard buried nearby? :costumes: