The announcement was based on analysis of fragments of pipes from Shakespeare's garden. Of twenty-four pipe fragments, eight tested positive for cannabis. (Telegraph: Cannabis discovered in tobacco pipes found in William Shakespeare's garden)
Here at the Rockhouse, we have never found law to be particularly useful and no-one honors it anyway so we don't know a whole lot about English law in Shakespearean times. We know it wasn't illegal and one thing we just discovered is that it was introduced about the time of the Roman occupation. Yah, so you think you have long history with ganja.
Smoking reefer in that situation is tough to imagine because it's not the same as the affectation of legal reefer in the U.S. now. Hipsters moved in on it here and you can ga-ron-tee if anyone can find a way to get people to stop smoking reefer, they're the ones. Chocolate candy reefer?? Who the fuck are these people??
There was no hipster aspect to it at that time, it's a weed which had been present in the country for around a millennium.
Shakespeare's writing has been analyzed for this type of content multiple times and I've not looked deeply into it but I didn't see anything which came anywhere close to promoting it in any way. The announcement doesn't seem to have much direct significance except insofar as the way reefer attracts dreamers like we're moths.
So now I'm wondering about Mark Twain because I'm thinking how fantastically cool it would be to ride down the Mississippi on a riverboat while smoking a bowl of the ganja with him. What do you suppose would come up in that conversation, huh?
(Ed: he could pilot the riverboats himself)
Yah, I know. Prob'ly not such a good idea to be blowin' the reefer while he's doing that.
Updated:
This should settle things on Twain's thoughts.
"Marijuana is among the most versatile remedies... It can treat most anything."
Well, well.
Here at the Rockhouse, we have never found law to be particularly useful and no-one honors it anyway so we don't know a whole lot about English law in Shakespearean times. We know it wasn't illegal and one thing we just discovered is that it was introduced about the time of the Roman occupation. Yah, so you think you have long history with ganja.
Smoking reefer in that situation is tough to imagine because it's not the same as the affectation of legal reefer in the U.S. now. Hipsters moved in on it here and you can ga-ron-tee if anyone can find a way to get people to stop smoking reefer, they're the ones. Chocolate candy reefer?? Who the fuck are these people??
There was no hipster aspect to it at that time, it's a weed which had been present in the country for around a millennium.
Shakespeare's writing has been analyzed for this type of content multiple times and I've not looked deeply into it but I didn't see anything which came anywhere close to promoting it in any way. The announcement doesn't seem to have much direct significance except insofar as the way reefer attracts dreamers like we're moths.
So now I'm wondering about Mark Twain because I'm thinking how fantastically cool it would be to ride down the Mississippi on a riverboat while smoking a bowl of the ganja with him. What do you suppose would come up in that conversation, huh?
(Ed: he could pilot the riverboats himself)
Yah, I know. Prob'ly not such a good idea to be blowin' the reefer while he's doing that.
Updated:
This should settle things on Twain's thoughts.
"Marijuana is among the most versatile remedies... It can treat most anything."
Well, well.
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