Could Shakespeare’s Bones Tell Us if He Smoked Pot?
The short answer is, “no.”
To elaborate...
In the first place, the bones are not Shakespeare’s; they are the remains of another guy named William Shakespeare, who is really wrote Shakespeare’s plays, and just put Shakespeare’s name on them.
If shakespeare’s bones don’t really belong Shakespeare, then they can’t tell us anything about Shakespeare.
It’s easy enough to find evidence that he didn’t like the Elizabethan chicks who liked to partake —
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
[Sonnet 130]