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[Ian Livingston]

But hemp--ditch weed--doesn't get you high, it just makes you sick if you
smoke it. The question is whether fokes had developed the selective growing
techniques that made sativa so delectable. And cocaine? Doesn't that
require some cooking to produce it? Native people in Central and South
America chew the leaves for that nice feeling, but the powder--when that
did that first appear? Just some questions, really....



On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 2. Was the Bard a pothead?"Experts have long speculated whether drugs
> played a role in Shakespeare's genius," says Kai Ma at TIME. The theory
> seems to be supported by lines in his sonnets referring to a "noted weed"
> and "a journey in his head." And a South African anthropologist, Francis
> Thackeray, thinks the playwright definitely had an affinity for marijuana.
> In a 2001 study, Thackeray said he found cannabis residue (along with
> cocaine) on clay pipe fragments from Shakespeare's garden. The
> high-inducing plant was certainly available back in the Bard's time, as it
> was used to make textiles and rope. ---This Week mag, next week.
>



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the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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