Scientists want to sample Shakespeare's body to see if he smoked marijuana

To write some of the crazy and twisted ISHT he wrote one would think he HAD to be high off SOMETHING…

To dig, or not to dig? That’s the latest question.

Paleontologists are looking to examine the remains of William Shakespeare, hoping to unlock the mysteries of the life and death of the world’s most famous playwright — and to prove that the poet once puffed…

…The team also looks to address a controversial suggestion Thackeray made a decade ago, when he examined a collection of two dozen pipes found in the playwright’s garden and determined that Shakespeare was an avid marijuana smoker.

Thackeray claimed the devices were used to smoke cannabis, a plant actively cultivated in Britain at the time. The allegation has provoked disbelief and anger among some fans of the bard.

Prof. Stanley Wells, honorary president of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, told the Daily Mail, “I would be happy if they did open it up because it could put an end to a lot of fruitless speculation.”

“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 told FoxNews.com, citing similar evidence found in Virginia.

Shakespeare would no doubt be appalled at the idea that someone would be snooping around his rotting bones. As he so eloquently had inscribed on his tomb:

“Good frend for Jesus sake forebeare,/ To digg the dust encloased heare;/ Bleste be the man that spares thes stones,/ And curst be he that moves my bones.”

For those you not versed in Shakespeare’s way of speaking, we’ve taken the liberty to translate his verbiage for you in the present vernacular

“For the love of infantile baby Jesus, please don’t fawk with me after I’m dead! I hope your left a$$ cheek falls off if you do!”

What do you think? Will they find that one of the greatest writers man has known was puffin’ purple kush to get inspired?

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