University of California Press E-Books Collection: Kinser, Samuel. Rabelais’s Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Full text.
Persée : Portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales: Bulletin de l’Association d’étude sur l’humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance, 1983, Volume 16 Numéro 16, pp. 18-4
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 persecution from the Church. For a long time the book was banned from the Catholic Church and in many modern versions of the book the coded references to marijuana seeds are omitted.”
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 not ends in themselves. Like all hermeneutic aporias in the Tiers Livre…
218. His ill-concieved, anticlamctic excursus on Pantagruelion is more futile tub-rolling by the same author who has already confessed his imperfections and …
212. On this level the only entirely correct interpretation of the Pantagruelion enigma is the one Pantagruel himself offered in the corresponding episode of …
219. It is highly significant that as he progresses through the Pantagruelion chapters “M. Fran. Rabelais docteur en Medicine” sounds more and more line “feu…
130. The ecstasies of the praise of Pantagruelion, no less than those of the praise of debts, are a deceptive and self-deluding error.
209. The Tiers Livre ends — appropriately for a book about interpretation — with an interpretive crux, the enigma of Pantagruelion. On one level this enigma is a …
213. In one of the most compelling readings of these final chapters to date David Quint has linked Pantagruelion to tnterpretation in …
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 discovery of hemp seeds in excavations.”
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 Institute (NDRI), both from Australia.