Doobie or not doobie? That is the question.
Pipes from 17th century dug up from his yard tested positive for cannabis residue:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0301_shakespeare.html
Well, "Measure for Measure" I wonder what his typical purchase from his "Merchant of Venice" was? "Two Gentlemen of Verona" could certainly sit with their "Merry Wives of Windsor" on the "Twelfth Night" of a "Winter's Tale" and have one helluva "Midsummer's Night Dream"! They could've done some serious "Taming of the Shrew"! Such a "Comedy of Errors"! "As You Like It"! 😉
A more likely explanation is that the student interns that found the pipes decided to use them themselves. 😉
Shakespeare wrote many great plays.
Many great songs were written by folks stoned to the bone.
Sound good to me.
The pipes also had traces of coca, and myristic acid, the hallucinogenic component of nutmeg.
Folks are not generally aware that the Elizabethan period was pretty swingin... a lot of our present day social attitudes would have been considered straitlaced and stuffy. We are all for the most part Victorians nowadays. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the art and royalty crowd was experimenting with all sorts of things, just like the 1960's. Europe had just been through the Renaissance, all kinds of amazing things were coming in on wooden ships from faraway exotic lands. They must have been having quite a time of it.
"Say can I have some of your purple berries...?"
