{
  "id": 19175870,
  "title": "Humans May Have Been Getting High on Weed 2,800 Years Ago. Cannabis Seeds and Hair With Traces of THC Were Found in an Ancient Tomb",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/humans-may-have-been-getting-high-on-weed-2-800-years-ago-cannabis",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-09T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-may-have-been-getting-high-on-weed-2800-years-ago-cannabis-seeds-and-hair-with-traces-of-thc-were-found-in-an-ancient-tomb-180989829/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A tomb discovered in Siberia and associated with Scythians—a nomadic, horse-riding people that once roamed the Eurasian steppe—might provide the earliest direct evidence of cannabis use",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Nature",
        "title": "Daily briefing: Ancient cave art found hiding in plain sight",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/daily-briefing-ancient-cave-art-found-hiding-in-plain-sight",
        "published": "2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Discover Magazine",
        "title": "Ancient Blood Found in a Dinosaur Fossil, the First U.S. Death From Bird Flu, and the Earliest Evidence of a Cannabis High",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/ancient-blood-found-in-a-dinosaur-fossil-the-first-u-s-death-from",
        "published": "2026-11-06T20:39:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}