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Theophile Gautier\u2019s account of \u2018green jam\u2019 cannabis consumption at the drug-addled dinner parties of the \u2018Club des Hachichins\u2019 - alongside literary figures Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo and Honor\xe9 de Balzac - was first published in\xa0Revue des Deux Mondes\xa0on 1st February, 1846.\nThe Club, founded by psychiatrist Dr Jacques Joseph Moreau to establish the psychedelic effects of eating copious amounts of marijuana, met in Arab fancy dress; its members mashing their drugs up with with cinnamon cloves, nutmeg, pistachio, sugar, orange juice - and an aphrodisiac derived from Spanish Fly.\nIn this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how Napoleon inadvertently triggered the French trend for weed that endures to this day; consider the influence of Thomas de Quincey\u2019s \u2018Confessions of an English Opium Eater\u2019 on this select group of Romantic literati; and review\xa0Charles Baudelaire\u2019s claim that he was merely a spectator and DID NOT INHALE\u2026\nFurther Reading:\n\u2022 \u2018Spoonfuls of paradise\u2019 (extract from \u2018Cannabis\u2019 by Jonathon Green, 2002):\xa0https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview34\n\u2022 \u2018The Hashish Club: How the Poets of Paris Turned on Europe\u2019 (High Times, 1979):\xa0https://hightimes.com/culture/the-hashish-club/\n\u2022 \u2018Jon Snow takes cannabis\u2019 (Channel 4, 2015):\xa0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyn0fDFqG3I\nFor bonus material and to support the show, visit\xa0Patreon.com/Retrospectors\nWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts:\xa0podfollow.com/Retrospectors\nThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.\nTheme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.\nCopyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2021.\n#1800s #Food #Strange #France\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices