[Merged] Did Shakespeare Smoke Weed?

[Big Bad Voodoo]

To dig, or not to dig? That's the latest question.

Paleontologists are looking to examine the remains of William Shakespeare, hoping to unlock the mysteries of the life and death of the world's most famous playwright -- and to prove that the poet once puffed.

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[Doctor_Strangelove]

This topic made me giggle like a madman. Immaturity? Yes. But I don't care.

It would defiantly explain him literally making up words.

[Finguz]

I think the question should be did he smoke too much weed

[Persia]

Anthropologist asks for permission to open the literary legend's grave to perform analyses that could explain whether or not the bard got his inspiration from smoking pot, among other questions

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/researchers-exhume-shakespeare-remains-pothead