Many esteemed masters of the creative class dabble in a bit of ‘dro to reach their creative apex.
Among them was pipe-wielding playwright William Shakepeare, whose garden recently turned up paraphernalia dusted with cannabis residue. Shakespeare did in fact allude to a “noted weed” in Sonnet 76, perhaps the catalyst to some of the most profound words in the English language – 1700 of which he invented himself, which is of course another thing stoners like to do.
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So could it be that The Bong-Blazing Bard penned existential soliloquies like ‘to be or not to be’ in the same enlightening haze that breeds conversations about the universe between your friends after a session on the couch?
“I suppose it’s remotely possible that Shakespeare and his family were getting a buzz from what they were smoking, but I very much doubt that it played any meaningful role in his life,” said Shakespeare authority Stephen Greenblatt about the findings. “Shakespeare never mentions pipes, tobacco, or smoking anywhere in his poems or plays.”
Ok, so he’s not exactly Wiz Khalifa about his passion for pot, but there’s also very little reason to boast about something that was very much legal and in widespread use at the time.
“We can’t prove that Shakespeare smoked these pipes, but we do now at least know what his contemporaries were smoking,” said palaeontologist Francis Thackeray. A noted homebody, it’s hard to imagine bud-burning Bill resistant to the peer pressure of his fellow contemporaries.
Maybe I want this fascinating revelation to be more true than the evidence suggests, but it’s very likely Shakespeare did work under some mind-altering influence. (Again, he just went ahead and MADE UP almost 2000 words.) Further analysis of clay pipes dug up from his garden reveals he may have been in love with coco as well.
According to Forensic Science Laboratory inspector Tommy van der Merwe, the pipes yielded “readings [that were] the same as if [they] had tested a modern-day crack pipe.”
The completely necessary research continues.
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