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UK: Shakespeare's 'cannabis sonnet'

Ananova

Thursday 01 Mar 2001

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When Shakespeare wrote about a "noted weed" he may have been referring to
cannabis.
A study has shown clay pipes from Stratford-upon-Avon at the time contain
traces of the drug.
There is no evidence Shakespeare took it but the discovery may explain the
phrase, which appeared in his Sonnet 76.
South African researchers also found evidence of other hallucinogenic drugs
and even cocaine.
Dr Francis Thackeray of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria said: "We do not
claim that any of the pipes belong to Shakespeare."
The work is published in the South African Journal of Science.

 

 

 

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