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“That’s right, Shakespeare was a stoner. I’m not making this up—they found the evidence in his backyard. Back in 2001, some anthropologists got permission from a museum to borrow ­twenty-four clay pipe fragments that had been dug up in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare used to live. Using state-of-the-art forensic technology, the anthropologists discovered cannabis residue on eight of ­them—including several from Shakespeare’s backyard ­garden—that dated back to the late 1500s/early 1600s, around the time he actually lived there.” Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned? (You think he managed iambic pentameter sober?)