Did the Bard smoke bud? 🌿 Turns out Shakespeare might have been a stoner. That's right. The Bard himself may have been a cannabis enthusiast. Tobacco pipes unearthed in Will’s backyard contain traces of chemicals found in cannabis. 📖 Scientists in South Africa scoured a handful of 400-year-old pipes from Stratford-upon-Avon and found four pipes from Shakespeare’s garden that contained traces of marijuana, or “the noted weed” as the Sonnets and your kooky aunt call it. ✍️ Eight tested positive for cannabis residue and two had remnants of Peruvian cocaine. 👀 #SundayFunFacts

Posted by Melissa Jane Sydie at 2022-05-29 15:00:53 UTC