Rising Hegemon
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.
I once had a scene in Timon of Athens -- and whoever wrote that was under the influence of something -- and it wasn't genius. Though they were obviously less stoned than the person who while deciding which Shakespeare to do that year picked Timon of Athens.
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Titus Andronicus.....definitely stoned.....
I think that the war on drugs demands that we start digging up the bones of these nefarious suspects and, if found guilty, they should be locked up until they have been rehabilitated.
This, of course, will require a new round of prison building. And it should be privatized.
To thine own bud be true.
'Blessed be he who spares these stones.
Cursed be he who moves my bones.'
enlightenment didn't arise from nothing.
I once read a description by an early English explorer of how the locals smoked the sot-weed. It involved taking a great big toke, holding it in then passing out after exhale. This would have been about the time of Will the Bard. That the English settlers ended up growing tobacco makes me think they were the first people burned in a dope deal.
"Dude, these seeds are from primo weed"
Anonymous said... @ 1:18 -
No ganja in the Americas until it was introduced by the Europeans (to make rope from the fibers). It is an Asian plant, first domesticated in China for the fibers and cultivated in India for its psychotropic effects. In North America, all they smoked was tobacco and a variety of non-psychotropic substitutes (willow bark, kinnikinnic, sumac leaves, and the like). In South America, they did have some hallucinogens that could be smoked, but they were more likely to drink them as tea or snort them as snuff.
these must be the dog days of summer
but digging up the Bard's bones a bummer...
let our imaginations ruminate,
but on such a proposal I urinate.
vox
a real bummer if you got the munchies tho.
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