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SOUTH AFRICA: SHAKESPEARE & CANNABIS

(1 Mar 2001) English/Nat Scientists in South Africa announced on Thursday morning they have found traces of cannabis in 17th Century clay pipes discovered at the site of William Shakespeare's residence in Straford-upon-Avon in England. Dr Francis Thackeray of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria undertook the chemical analysis of 24 fragments of clay pipes. Using special equipment at the police forensic science laboratory in South Africa, they've found what they call 'suggestive evidence' of cannabis. These positive tests of compounds in the pipes supports a view that Shakespeare's reference to a \"noted weed\" in his 76th Sonnet may have been associated with cannabis. The pipes also had traces of tobacco, camphor and myristic acid - which is also known to have hallucinogenic properties. Another pipe which was discovered at \"Harvard House\" in Stratford-upon-Avon, home of the mother of John Harvard after whom Harvard University is named, was found to contain traces of cocaine. SOUNDBITE (English) \"The results suggest that at least one hallucinogenic substance was accessible to Shakespeare and his contemporaries at a time when smoking was a novelty in England.\" SUPERCAPTION: Dr Francis Thackeray SOUNDBITE (English) \"Although not conclusive, the chemical analyses of compounds in the pipes supports a view that Shakespeare's reference to a \"noted weed\" in his 76th Sonnet may have been associated with cannabis.\" SUPERCAPTION: Dr Francis Thackeray SOUNDBITE (English) \"One of the pipe samples with cocaine came from \"Harvard House\" in Stratford-upon-Avon, home of the mother of John Harvard after whom Harvard University is named. It was a pipe stem, still completely filled with the soil from her garden, which had sealed it against modern contamination. Material from inside the stem contained the cocaine.\" SUPERCAPTION: Dr Francis Thackeray Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...