[megayields]

Circa 1600, Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) reading Hamlet to his family. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

To be, or not to be? William Shakespeare's famous question is about to be trumped by one even greater, and it goes something like this: "Doobie, or no doobie?"
Yes, Shakespeare might have had a little help from the cannabis muse, according to researchers who found traces of marijuana on a pipe at his home in Stratford-upon-Avon. That discovery was made 10 years ago, and investigators are itching to get their questions answered once and for all.
That's why they're petitioning to open up Shakespeare's grave.

Francis Thackeray, the director of the Institute for Human Evolution at South Africa's University of Witwatersrand, thinks he could use hair, fingernail and toenail remains to determine if Shakespeare had traces of marijuana in his body when he died in 1616.
Thackeray also wants to analyze the poet's skeleton for clues about how he died, something that has long been a mystery to scholars.
Thackeray told LiveScience.com he's submitted a petition to exhume the bodies of Shakespeare and his family, interned at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon. Church leaders say they haven't been contacted about the request so far, and they've been vague about whether the request will be granted.
Shakespeare himself wasn't so vague. An engraving on the famous playwright's gravestone places a curse on anyone who disturbs his remains.
It reads: "Good friend for Jesus sake forebeare,/ To digg the dust encloased heare./ Blese be the man that spares thes stones,/ And curst be he that moves my bones."
Thackeray thinks he found a loophole around the curse. He's planing to utilize a laser scanning technique that will record the skeletons of Shakespeare and his family digitally, then use 3-D renderings to look for signs of bone disease.
"We don't want to move any of the bones," he told LiveScience.
That's the kind of clever irony Shakespeare might have appreciated.

Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...#ixzz1QXVGcnK7

[Bionic]

Wo cares if he did or didn't (besides this one kook)? Seems like a lot of effort to determine (or not) something so pointless. Let the guy and his family rest in peace.

just look at the guy



looks like a guy who got stoned and would start going on rants and shit

getting people high with words

[bentom187]

you know he did .all social activist do,and have no other motivation except peace and love.
im even greatfull to see a picture where,pot would be concidered a artistic cornerstone.
even shakespear FTW ,
you know we went horribley wrong where we can let people be as productive as this and thrive.
no matter what they consider a benifit!!!

[Headbandf1]

Recently uncovered evidence suggests that William Shakespeare used marijuana, and now a team of paleontologists want to dig him up to prove it.
Francis Thackeray, an anthropologist and director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has made a formal request to the Church of England to unearth the playwright.
"We have incredible techniques," Thackeray told Fox News. "We don't intend to move the remains at all."
After determining the identity of the remains, Thackeray's team hopes to find out more about Shakespeare's life and even the cause of his death.
"Growth increments in the teeth will reveal if he went through periods of stress or illness -- a plague for example, which killed many people in the 1600s," he said.
Further tests should be able to ascertain if the bard smoked marijuana.
"If we find grooves between the canine and the incisor, that will tell us if he was chewing on a pipe as well as smoking," Thackeray explained.



Pipes uncovered in the garden of Shakespeare's home in 2001 showed evidence of cannabis and cocaine.
"There were very low concentrations of cannabis, but the signature was there," according to Inspector Tommy van der Merwe, who tested the pipes at South Africa's Forensic Science Laboratory.
The evidence of cocaine was also very strong.
"The pipes we tested still had dirt in them which preserved the residues inside the stem and bowl," Van der Merwe said. "The readings we got were the same as if it had tested a modern-day crack pipe."
Camphor, myristic acid, and quinoline were among other substances detected in the pipes.
"Myristic acid, which is found in nutmeg, has hallucinogenic properties, and camphor, perhaps, was used to hide the smell of tobacco or other substances," Thackeray noted in 2001.
Sonnet 76 of Shakespeare's poems contains a reference to the "noted weed."



Link: https://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/2...e-smoked-weed/

[superbolan]

He does have a resemblance to the zig zag man? hmmmm

[RetroGrow]

Apparently, Shakespeare smoked weed.

https://gizmodo.com/5816538/was-willi...smoking-hippie

"Was William Shakespeare a Pot-Smoking Hippie?A South African anthropologist wants to dig up William Shakespeare's bones to find out if the playwright smoked pot. He got this crazy idea from an earlier study which turned up pipe fragments in Shakespeare's garden that were coated with a marijuana residue.

Francis Thackeray from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg is asking the Church of England for permission to exhume the almost 400-year old bones. But it's not that easy.

The bones of Shakespeare have a curse, bestowed upon them by the poet himself. The grave stone warns "Blessed be the man that spares these stones. And cursed be he who moves my bones."

Undeterred, Thackeray claims he can conduct his study and avoid the curse. He wants to scan the bodies of Shakespeare, his wife and his daughter without disturbing their bones. When he does disturb items in the playwright's tomb, they will be non-bone body parts like teeth, hair or nails, if they are still present.

Besides the bard's preference for smoking reefer, Thackeray could use this forensic information to determine the relative health of Shakespeare and possibly his cause of death. The Church of England has not processed Thackeray's application so it will be a while before a decision to close or open the tomb is made. Until then, we can only dream about having Shakespeare as the unofficial spokesman for NORML."


To burn, or not to burn?
That is the question.

[sandawg]

first

[megayields]

I already posted this article yesterday..I was first pffffft...lol

[Bionic]

Originally Posted by sandawg

first

Wish we could say the same for this topic.

Originally Posted by megayields

I already posted this article yesterday..I was first pffffft...lol

It was 3 days ago.