Pantagruelion

Skin Up With Shakespeare: “However, using marijuana seeds to uncover under-lying inspiration is certainly nothing new in the world of literature. Francois Rabelais, who died about ten years before the birth of William Shakespeare, made many cryptic references to cannabis. His book, Pantagruel, describes the drug as the herb Pantagruelion, a term used to escape [...]

CBS News: “Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.”

Google Books: By Edwin M. Duval, 1997
Publisher: Droz, (Travaux d’humanisme et Renaissance)
Pub. Date: January 1997
ISBN-13: 9782600002288
Fragments from a search for pantagruelion:
210: Increasingly thoughout the Pantagruelion chapters he hints that the “mot de l’enigme” is itself an enigma to be deciphered, that “flax-hemp” is merely a …
211. But the polyvalence and indeterminacy of Pantagruelion are [...]

ScienceDaily U.S. and Brazilian scientists have discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite, and preventing marijuana abuse.”

Drug War Rant: “Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a much different picture.”

Times Online: ” Scientists have found the drug paraphernalia used by prehistoric humans to cook up herbal mixtures to get themselves high. Scientists have long suspected that humans have an ancient history of drug use but much of the evidence has been indirect, ranging from the bizarre images found in prehistoric cave art to the [...]

Etsy :: TomBanwell: “Another variation of the green man, Reefer Man!”

Science Blog: Claims that a large increase in the strength of cannabis over the last decade is driving the occurrence of mental health and other problems for users are not borne out by a study of the worldwide literature, say researchers at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) and the National Drug Research [...]

guardian.co.uk: “An Israeli researcher is claiming in a study published this week the prophet may have been stoned when he set the Ten Commandments in stone. According to Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, psychedelic drugs formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical [...]

Scientific Commons: The Pantagruelion engima and the structure of Franc̜ois Rabelais’ Tiers livre. David Russell Morgan (1935-), 1971 Columbia University thesis