Were people smoking cannabis 2,800 years ago? A new ancient tomb discovery suggests potentially

So since 2017 we have been excavating this monumental royal tomb in southern Siberia. It's a very large burial mound, 140 meters in diameter, and now in the center of this tomb we have discovered a bunch of burials. And while excavating these, we found these tiny black spots there. Once we had them, we picked them out and they turned out to be seeds. Cannabis seeds do have this beautiful vascular net-like pattern on the surface and so the identification was relatively quickly done, but when we discovered preserved human hair only a few hours later, we knew exactly what we had to do. It's only so often as an archaeologist that you do get to drug test a person that's been dead for almost three thousand years. So we have these famous parts of Herodotus talking about the Scythians going into the tent, smoking and laughing crazily. That has always taken as an indication that the peoples on the steppe were actually consuming cannabis. So what we cannot probably assume is a sort of recreational use, like after work I smoke a joint type of stuff. Clearly, in a burial context, there's some aspect of ritual behind this. There might be some sinister aspects as well because we have a lot of horse sacrifices and also potentially human sacrifices and this might be beneficial if the humans that you're about to sacrifice are not are somewhat sedated at least that is speculation and an interpretation based on the context that might be an option here but we can't prove that.