Hashish Arrives in Europe Via Napoleon's Egyptian Invasion

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt in a failed attempt to install colonial rule. French soldiers did succeed in enthusiastically adopting the local custom of consuming hashish, a practice with a long, storied history in the Islamic world. When the occupation ended, they brought a taste for cannabis home that lead directly to the formation of Paris’s famed Club des Hashischins, where Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, and Charles Baudelaire drank coffee laced with weed and got weird with it. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video shows and seshes, plus access to cool rewards like a signed book or signature lighter. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.

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0:00.0	Howdy do, everybody? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome back for yet another edition of great
0:07.5	moments in weed history. On this podcast, myself and my colleague Bean, who are both cannabis
0:13.8	journalists and media makers, go through some of the more interesting points in the very, very long
0:19.8	history of cannabis, something that we
0:23.1	both love and are pretty much obsessed with. And you should know that I myself have no prior
0:28.9	knowledge of any of the stories being told. Bean has done the research and written the story.
0:33.4	He's going to be telling me about it. And we're going to smoke some weed. We're going to
0:36.8	have some tea, kick it, have a few laughs.
0:39.9	So come and join us and we're going to have some fun and we're going to learn some stuff.
0:45.5	Yeah, absolutely.
0:46.6	I got a great story for you today.
0:48.2	Yeah, man.
0:48.9	I'm really stoked.
0:49.6	What do we got going on?
0:50.5	Oh, it's got some twists and turns, armies, world leaders. A lot of people you don't
0:58.0	normally associate with cannabis. It's a grand and winding tale. I'm ready to lay it on you.
1:06.0	Oh my God. It sounds super interesting. And I'm stoked, man. You know, I'm always really entertained by these stories.
1:13.6	I always learn a lot, despite how much I already know about cannabis.
1:17.8	And, yeah, I mean, this one sounds like it's going to be pretty fucking epic.
1:21.9	So, yeah, I mean, I think we should start getting into it.
1:26.3	Yeah, buckle up, roll one up.
1:28.4	I see we've got one ready to spark up here in the studio.
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