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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCannabis discovered in tobacco pipes found in William Shakespeare's garden
<snipt>South African scientists have discovered that 400-year-old tobacco pipes excavated from the garden of William Shakespeare contained cannabis, suggesting the playwright might have written some of his famous works while high.
Residue from early 17th century clay pipes found in the playwrights garden, and elsewhere in Stratford-Upon-Avon, were analysed in Pretoria using a sophisticated technique called gas chromatography mass spectrometry, the Independent reports.
Of the 24 fragments of pipe loaned from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to University of the Witwatersrand, cannabis was found in eight samples, four of which came from Shakespeare's property.</snip>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespeare/11792533/Cannabis-discovered-in-tobacco-pipes-found-in-William-Shakespeares-garden.html
A close reading of Shakespeare shows it's right there in the text:
"Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;
Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,
Shall yield them little." - Henry V
"A hit, a very palpable hit." - Hamlet
"Tis true; she rides me and I long for grass.
'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be
But I should know her as well as she knows me." - A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Cannabis discovered in tobacco pipes found in William Shakespeare's garden (Original Post)
ehrnst
Aug 2015
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Heather MC
(8,084 posts)1. It all makes sense now!!!
Lochloosa
(16,018 posts)9. Tis' true not...
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)2. " Look not to the ground, Ye favourites of a king: are we not high? "
- Richard II
GusBob
(7,286 posts)3. Some people have claimed proof in sonnet 76
"keep invention in noted weed"
But that line has nothing to do with pot
Interestingly, this sonnet is also pointed to by those who think Edward De Vere to be the real Shakespeare
The line above translates to hiding poetic creation in a costume
And the Line which follows
When every word tells you my name
Was thought to refer to De Vere
Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)4. Cannabis had been condemned by the church before Shakespeare's time
"Writers who were explicit about Cannabis could have their books burnt", Professor Francis Thackeray added.
I'm most curious about the trade route for the henbane of Peru (cocaine derived from smoking coca leaves) found in the other pipes.
malaise
(267,805 posts)5. This thread deserves 500 recs
I love it
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)6. "Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free. And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:"
- Henry V
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)7. To be or not to be… stoned.
Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)8. Load up some Shake
n/t
Rex
(65,616 posts)10. The lady doth protest too much, methinks
or not this is some pretty good shite.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)11. Too bad ol' Bill ain't alive today. We could put him in Federal Prison!
Iggo
(47,487 posts)12. Then those are 400-year-old pot pipes, ain't they?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)13. The quality of chronic is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from Denver.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)14. Explains Pericles.
"Duuuuude. Pirates should totally attack."