2,500 year old Siberian Princess had breast cancer, used Cannabis to cope

[nationalize the fed]

Anna Liesowska SiberianTimes.com 14 October 2014

'Princess Ukok' mummy in Anokhin museum, Gorno-Altaisk.
Picture: Alexander Tyryshkin

Studies of the mummified Ukok 'princess' - named after the permafrost plateau in the Altai Mountains where her remains were found - have already brought extraordinary advances in our understanding of the rich and ingenious Pazyryk culture.

The tattoos on her skin are works of great skill and artistry, while her fashion and beauty secrets - from items found in her burial chamber which even included a 'cosmetics bag' - allow her impressive looks to be recreated more than two millennia after her death.

Now Siberian scientists have discerned more about the likely circumstances of her demise, but also of her life, use of cannabis, and why she was regarded as a woman of singular importance to her mountain people.


Dr Andrey Letyagin; scans show right breast tumor and metastatic lymph nodes

Her use of drugs to cope with the symptoms of her illnesses evidently gave her 'an altered state of mind', leading her kinsmen to the belief that she could communicate with the spirits, the experts believe...

...It is known that in her burial chamber was a container of cannabis...

MORE: http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/iconic-2500-year-old-siberian-princess-died-from-breast-cancer-reveals-unique-mri-scan/

[malthaussen]

1. The mj factoid is interesting.

But the rest is speculation. Even the part about using mj to deal with the cancer.

-- Mal

[UTUSN]

2. This is what I've been telling our recreational users

Back in the '70s some of my (true) Hippie (unlike me) friends were going to Mexico and Central America for weed and mushrooms. Their first time some indigenous Mexicans denied that they had any weed. The main Hippie was adamant that they did. After the aggressive demands, the Mexican finally admitted that they *did* have it but pleaded that, "It's for when a woman gives birth or when a man breaks a limb." So the Hippie yelled, "That means you DO have it so sell me some!1"

It's a PAIN KILLER. For medicinal use.

[phil89]

4. Many people enjoy it for recreation

and you don't get to define what it's for.

[UTUSN]

5. Do "Many (indigenous) people" get to?!1 Luvya back!1 n/t

[cali]

3. how do they know she used cannabis to cope with her illness and not for other reasons?

lots of assumptions in this article.

[Hekate]

9. Death from cancer is excruciating. They'll probably examine her tissues; that could turn up opium...

...perhaps. For her sake, I hope so. Without adequate drugs, people leave this life in terrible suffering.

However, they've minutely examined the contents of her tomb already, and it contains everything of importance to her life, including rich adornment and cosmetics. This cannabis seems to have been the only drug in there.

[zonkers]

11. For what its worth they found some petrified cheetos, nearby.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. "...It is known that in her burial chamber was a container of cannabis..."

Hopefully with a really cool looking pipe.

Or did they roll papyrus?

[Dustlawyer]

7. Didn't someone tell her it has, "No medicinal use!"

Sarcasm

[SheilaT]

8. So much for the belief that cancer is a disease of

modern civilization.

Dinosaurs got cancer, in case you'd ever wondered.

The Cancer Chronicles by George Johnson is an excellent read.

[malaise]

10. Looks like someone else was singing

Legalize it before Peter Tosh