Sacred Weeds

Sacred Weeds
Genre	Documentary
Created by	Sarah Marris
Presented by	Andrew Sherratt
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	4
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	1998 (1998)
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Sacred Weeds is a four-part television series of 50 minute documentaries investigating the cultural impact of psychoactive plants on a broad array of early civilisations. The series was filmed at Hammerwood Park by the producer, Sarah Marris, and her production company TVF. It was broadcast in the summer of 1998 on Channel 4, a British television network.

Dr Andrew Sherratt, then a Reader in European Prehistory at the University of Oxford, was the series host. Each episode began and ended with Sherratt inscribing his diary with his reflections on the series' scientific and cultural investigations. In each episode the series investigated one psychoactive plant and its cultural significance. Three specialists of various scientific disciplines were invited to monitor two volunteers who had taken each plant. After the four episodes, Sherratt assigned considerably more significance to the psychoactive properties of plants in ancient civilization and the prehistoric period than expert knowledge hitherto.