Tuesday June 28, 2011
Noted Weed:
Did Shakespeare Smoke Dope?
An archaeologist wants to exhume Shakespeare's corpse to discover if he was a cannabis smoker.
Francis Thackeray previously found traces of cannabis in pipe fragments found in the Bard's garden.
From io9:
Thackeray says that if there is any hair or nail fragments left on the corpse, his team would be able to perform chemical analyses that could detect even highly minute quantities of marijuana. Thackeray says he plans to use laser surface scanning, which could image the skeletons of Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway, and his daughter Susanna without directly disturbing them. There's also the possibility of taking DNA samples from the bard's teeth, which could also reveal what Shakespeare's diet was like.
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