Shakespeare's Garden

Author: Silvia Oudhoff

Have you ever asked yourself who in politics, which prominent or academic person might regularly smoke a joint these days? It is certainly not particularly desirable for a public figure to openly communicate their own regular consumption of cannabis. What private person would discuss this publicly?

What would you say if we told you something interesting that our editorial team found? There is a serious scientific debate about whether William Shakespeare was inspired by smoking marijuana, among other things.

Cannabis and Shakespeare in the 16th century

When William Shakespeare was alive, smoking cannabis, or rather simply "weed", as he himself called it in his sonnet number 76, was more popular than it is today. William's name on his baptism certificate was Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakespeare and he lived from 1564 to 1616. Back then, too, his first name was William Shakespeare. We find it particularly interesting that consuming cannabis products was not a taboo subject at that time. Hemp as industrial hemp was also omnipresent. William Shakespeare himself wrote, not on paper made from opaque deforestation like we do, but on sustainable, grateful hemp paper. During Shakespeare's lifetime, hemp was incredibly popular and well known on the high seas. Jobs related to shipping were common and hemp ropes have always been the best and safest ropes, even in rough seas. Every sailor knows that to this day.

In the theatre scene of humanism, the Renaissance and the Reformation, Shakespeare was very popular at the Globe Theatre on the south bank of the Thames in London with his over 36 plays and over 150 sonnets. Shakespeare is still known to us today, especially through Romeo and Juliet, his best known and most popular play. Young actors and artists, but also many audiences of all ages, knew cannabis through hemp as a useful and important material in modern everyday life, including for intoxication purposes. Hemp, as people knew better at the time, was not only better than cotton thread for sealing, but also popular and widely used as clothing due to its special resistance to moisture. In addition, even the poor could afford hemp seeds, which supply the body with valuable fats and proteins.

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Shakespeare and Cannabis

If you search online for the current scientific discussion, magical terms pop up, such as Shakespeare's garden or William Shakespeare's cannabis pipe. We've taken a closer look at this for you.

Harald Lesch also addressed the phenomenon of Shakespeare and cannabis in one of his numerous ZDF documentaries , this time about intoxication, intoxicants in general and the historical background. The well-known Professor Lesch focused primarily on the mystery of Shakespeare's garden. It was equally important to him to emphasize that for William Shakespeare, hemp was a normal and very important crop. Intoxication from marijuana was as common at the time as alcohol is for us. A theory was also discussed here that William Shakespeare could have found inspiration and a break by consuming cannabis. Especially when such enormous claims are involved, one must strive for reliable sources in the interests of a serious debate and successful 420 development. All the better that the topic is becoming increasingly popular on public television.
We even found a radio play on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, The Tenth Muse - The Grass in Shakespeare's Garden . If you would like more information to watch and listen to, we can recommend the documentary and radio play.

Shakespeare's Garden and the Pipe

The topic that most posts and comments focus on is the topic of Shakespeare's pipe. There is a scientist who allegedly found cannabis in Shakespeare's pipe. This scientist, Professor Francis Thackeray, is an anthropologist, or rather a paleoanthropologist. He mainly studies fossil remains and the phylogenetic development of humans. Our editorial team finds a lot of discussion and criticism surrounding this publication. Most critics are not very convinced by Professor Thackeray's interpretations, which are supposed to indicate that William Shakespeare clearly consumed cannabis.

Shakespeare and Cannabis Today

It is not 100% clear, neither in literature, nor in the philosophical discussion of Shakespeare, nor anywhere else, whether Shakespeare really smoked weed. Did Shakespeare clearly mean hemp for consumption by smoking when he used "weed," or could "weed" also be translated as clothing or garment in this context? After all, hemp was an indispensable part of clothing during Shakespeare's lifetime.
A serious discussion about the possible cannabis consumption of this great poet, whose name is still in everyone's mind today and who is mentioned in at least every English class, is good for the European 420 movement.

In any case, it is undisputed that William Shakespeare had a pipe and it is proven that he used this pipe for smoking. Tobacco was not used as a stimulant until Shakespeare was alive, at the end of the 16th century. Tobacco and other herbs were probably more common at that time than cannabis for intoxication purposes. However, it is proven that cannabis was smoked much more frequently and with pleasure in the theater scene.
So it's not at all unlikely that William Shakespeare smoked weed while writing poetry. How would Shakespeare filter a cannabis mixture today? We have an idea.
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More articles on the topic of Shakespeare and hemp

You can find other interesting articles on this topic on the web.
Here we have linked two cool texts on the topic of Shakespeare’s Garden:

• Der SPIEGEL with “Shakespeare – Genius through grass?”
• The Frankfurter Allgemeine with “Shakespeare’s Pipe – Hemp or not Hemp”