Cannabis Campaigners' Guide News Database result:


After you have finished reading this article you can click here to go back.

UK: 17th-Century Cannabis Pioneer's Journal Found

Maev Kennedy

Guardian, The (UK)

Saturday 25 Feb 2006

-----
Previously unknown journals by the 17th-century explorer Thomas Bowrey,
the first English man to describe the recreational use of cannabis, have
turned up at an Isle of Wight auction house.

In the 1690s Captain Bowrey tried "bhang", an infusion of cannabis seed
and leaf, in India. "In less than half an houre it's Operation will
Shew it Selfe for the space of 4 or 5 hours," he wrote.

The journals record his travels to Bengal in 1689, an attempt to find
the north-west passage in 1695, and an observation of a transit of
Venus. They will be sold at Bonham's next month for an estimated ?15,000.

 

 

 

After you have finished reading this article you can click here to go back. 




This page was created by the Cannabis Campaigners' Guide.

Feel free to link to this page!