Original sentence: Analysis of samples found in these vessels by Professor Mayer-Melikyan revealed the traces of both cannabis and Ephedra.Clearly both these psychoactive substances had been used in conjunction in the making of hallucinogenic drinks.In another room at the other end of the shrine a basin containing remains of a considerable quantity of cannabis was discovered, as well as a number of pottery stands and strainers that have also been associated with making psychoactive beverages....In one of these private rooms were found three ceramic bowls.In the adjoining room of the same inner sanctum were found ten ceramic pot-stands which appear to have been used in conjunction with strainers designed to separate the juices from the twigs, stems and leaves of the plants.Nonetheless, "archaeological evidence emerged from Russian excavations in the Kara Kum desert of Turkmenistan ... known to the ancients as Margiana," writes researcher Richard Rudgley, in The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances, (Little, Brown and Company, 1998).[T]he discovery in the shrines of the remains of opium, cannabis and Ephedra in ritual vessels that are dated between 2000-1000 BC show that soma in its Iranian form haoma may be considered as a composite psychoactive substance comprising of cannabis and Ephedra in one instance and opium and Ephedra in another