SOME OF William Wordsworth?s friends were not averse to various drugs, and even Queen Victoria took cannabis to ease her period pains. Coleridge?s search for inspiration was fuelled by laudanum, so that in time his poetry did not receive the plaudits it earned from his contemporaries. Wordsworth, better known for his addiction to daffodils, would have found plenty nodding away at Kew, where a symposium was recently held on cannabis in medicine.
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