Anthropologist says Shakespeare might have smoked marijuana

Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune ^ | 5/4/03 | Peg Meier

[Aracelis]

Oh no! The Bard's been bagged!

[Terpfen]

So Shakespeare inhaled, did he?

This explains some of his plays. Particularly Othello.

[wardaddy]

Well, if it was plain ol Kansas style rope hemp, it'll only get you high if you climb the rope.

Voice of experience here kids.

[crazykatz]

The article says.....Although there is NO proof.....

These idiots are so trying. If you don't have proof shut the heck up!!

[TrebleRebel]

...he surmises that some of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays also lend credence to the possibility that the writer smoked marijuana for inspiration.

I wonder how many students have had to smoke marijuana in order to study those sonnets and plays...

[Texas Eagle]

"Cursed be he who moves my bones."

(GASP!) Could this be another veiled reference? Did Shakespeare play ........yahtzee?

[Texas Eagle]

The article says.....Although there is NO proof.....

Obviously this guy is no Jayson Blair.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

I am in bud
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

[BenR2]

His aunt may have had balls, too, but . . . . we really don't know, do we?

[Sonny M]

The article says.....Although there is NO proof.....

I had to scroll back up and see if this was from the NY Times.

[Maximum Leader]

A better question would be, did the Earl of Oxford smoked pot?
:o)

[Arkinsaw]

Somebody ask Joe Sobran if this is true.

[jejones]

Well, Sobran would say that it was Edward de Vere who was toking, wouldn't he? :)

[Charles Henrickson]

"Dude, wherefore art thou?"

[Charles Henrickson]

"To be or. . . . What was the question?"

[Slings and Arrows]

Several 17th-century clay pipes found at the site of William Shakespeare's home were used to smoke marijuana, a South African anthropologist says.

"You're a very silly man, and I'm not going to interview you."

[Behind Liberal Lines]

So this is what journalism has come to.

A headline that says something "might" have happened, and a sentence buried in the article that "there is no proof."

What's next?

Headlines like "Elvis MIGHT be alive," "John Kerry MIGHT be a shaved bigfoot," "George W. Bush MIGHT have been abducted by aliens"?

Talk about turning mainstream into tabloid journalism.

[dark_lord]

Two [pipe fragments] also showed evidence of cocaine.

Yeah, must be space aliens running that cocaine processing and transport to England back 400 years ago.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

One of Will's descendants is still keeping up the family tradition.