Were the Vikings Smoking Pot While Exploring Newfoundland?
The discovery of cannabis pollen near a Viking settlement in Newfoundland raises the question of whether the Vikings were smoking or eating pot while exploring North America. The researchers also found evidence the Vikings occupied this outpost for more than a century, way longer than previously believed.
Located in northern Newfoundland, the site of L'Anse aux Meadows was founded by Vikings around A.D. 1000. Until now, archaeologists believed that the site was occupied for only a brief period. The new research, published today (July 15) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the Vikings lived there possibly into the 12th or even the 13th century ... analysis suggested Viking occupation for up to 200 years.
The finding of cannabis pollen raises the question of whether the Vikings used cannabis for making clothes or for medicinal-recreational purposes while they explored North America. Paul Ledger, a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland said it's also possible that oy was brought to the peat bog by indigenous peoples who lived in Newfoundland, and not by the Vikings. "We do know that there were indigenous people, ancestors of the Beothuk (Algonkian-speaking hunter-gatherers ), on the site at that time."
The research team plans to continue their work at L'Anse aux Meadows in August.
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part of my tribe, I believe it! 
Roughing it, hostile bears, hostile natives, bad weather...
Ya need a little sumpin' to relax with around the campfire at the end of the day.
So I'd say, if they weren't, they probably should have been.
