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Here’s What Happens When You Leave Weed Up Your Nose for 18 Years

Here’s What Happens When You Leave Weed Up Your Nose for 18 Years

Here’s What Happens When You Leave Weed Up Your Nose for 18 Years

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

November 5, 20193m 2s

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Nose pickers are often said to be digging for gold. But a 48-year-old Australian man needed an entirely different kind of nugget mined from his schnoz. Doctors excavated from the man's right nasal cavity a 19 mm by 11 mm rock-hard mass—the calcified remains of a small amount of marijuana he tried to smuggle into prison a startling 18 years earlier. ARS TECHNICA This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more.

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