Burning Shiva: Shakespeare's pipes

Burning Shiva with Chris Bennett

• Running Time: 30 min
• Date Entered: 13 Mar 2001
• Viewer Rating: 8.79 (55 votes)
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Frances Thackeray will be lecturing on 'Cannabis and creative, cryptic writing, with special reference to Shakespeare' at Entheogensis 2005, May 21st-23rd in Vancouver. Details at www.entheogenesis.ca
In this 2001 interview host Chris Bennett talks to Dr. Frances Thackeray of the Transvaal Museum in South Africa about his theory that William Shakespeare used cannabis, and the results of the chemical analysis of resins found in pipes from the Bard's property that indicated marijuana had been smoked in them.

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