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I’m so tired of the attitude people have toward those who smoke pot.  Jeeze!  90% of the people you interact with on a daily basis probably smoke pot.  It’s a personal choice, and as long as you aren’t being stupid with your choices, who the fuck cares?

To each their own.  I’d rather associate myself with a chilled out pot head than a belligerent alcoholic any day of the week.

Doubt it. He was such a tortured person to begin with and, really, once you’re that broken, you don’t need external substances to create art. He was a drunk, which leads me to suspect that he wanted to drown thoughts out, not have them pop up.

LOVE that Romeo and Juliet video. Second City is hilarious.

This is ridiculous, absolutely, and quite honestly it pisses me off. So a person cannot be brilliant, cannot be artistic or creative without taking a substance? Obviously they are jealous that they cannot themselves create works so phenomenal that they had to concoct some reason as to how he could. And trying to his exhume his body is even more ridiculous. Ugh.

Sickening.

@ohveryoung@xanga - Great comment 

I can’t comment on Shakespeare’s possible marijuana use, but I really do wish the stigma were lifted off of it by society.  Rather weed than cigarettes!

@ohveryoung@xanga - amen!

I think it’s the people who will never experience talent in themselves that are the ones who can’t fathom it’s potential for genius.

@TheDeadWhale@xanga - Amen. Who can understand the genius of another when your brain is clouded and paranoid, that none must be able to be more brilliant them yourself. 

I honestly don’t know who spread the rumor that weed makes you creative… it’s total BS.

Anyways, there are also theories that Shakespeare wasn’t a real person, that it was just a psedonym for a group of writers or something. But who knows what to believe anymore.

sassy gay friend is the BEST. those are so funny.

people wanna make a buck. they want to be the ones that discover that shakespeare and all his great works were indeed a lie, when they could be doing something useful. and even if they find “clues that point to marijuana”, that still doesn’t prove whether he did or did not smoke pot. this is so incredibly ridiculous. this actually makes me mad.

@papillonquotes@xanga - agreed.

and it really shouldn’t matter. this has nothing to do with there being a stigma on pot smokers. he’s dead….long gone…why dig up his body just to see if he smoked pot?? i mean really?? think about how disgusting and terrible that sounds?? the people who want to do this must be on drugs.

It’s not that they don’t think he could have written his stuff without pot. It’s that they found a pipe with traces of marijuana on it at his home in Stratford-upon-Avon a decade ago, and have now decided to actually investigate it.

ALSO, the person trying to exhume the body is also searching for clues as to how Shakespeare died. It’s not JUST to find out about marijuana, though that’s certainly part of it.

OP~ Do your research and include relevant facts, please.

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@ohveryoung@xanga - right? good comment. most people have no idea what they’re talking about.

@papillonquotes@xanga - freak out more? LOL. No one is saying you can’t be brilliant without doing drugs. They’re wanting to know IF he did. Because IF he did, it will matter a lot. In the terms of Marijuana activists rights, ect. Not to mention, it’d tell us if Shakespeare was a pothead or not.

@betterdesigned@xanga - That’s…. what pot does.. lol. Distracts you from everyday life so you don’t have to think about how shitty this world really is. 

SASSY GAY FRIEND!!!
… why does it matter if Shakespeare was high when he wrote plays? He’s dead now. Haha digging him up is kind of a waste of time (and money) at this point. I really don’t think smoking weed is a big deal, being tripped out on something opens up new doors for ideas and concepts. Sure, it’d be cool if someone could naturally have inspiration but I think of smoking weed as being more of a nudge in the right direction for inspiration– not everyone who smokes weed is going to suddenly be inspired to create masterpieces, you still have to have at least some creativity.  
P.S. I’ve never smoked weed. Or a cigarette. Or drank illegally (key: illegally, yay Europe!). I don’t want lung cancer for cigarettes, and I don’t think getting high/drunk is worth getting caught (because I’m unlucky and I would be caught, lol )

Hey now, don’t knock sassy gay friend Those are my favorite. Hamlet: “He stabbed your dad through a curtain.” “So we kill ourselves? KILL OURSELVES?” “You stupid byitch.” LOLOLOLOLOL. And I don’t care what you say about Shakespeare. He was BRILLIANT. Maybe he smoked pot. Maybe he was gay. Maybe he was crazy. Who gives a fuck? He still revolutionized the literature world, laying down the foundations of both modern theatre and literary style. Don’t try to make it more complicated than it is.

@ijustneedtodoit@xanga - Oh, I would never make fun of Sassy Gay Friend! I love his videos!

@ohveryoung@xanga - Me fuckin’ toooooo. My ex-best friend went from being a huge stoner/big drinker to just a big drinker who smoked very little, and she became a crazy, neurotic bitch… which is why she is an ex-best friend.

I always thought if he did drugs it’d be something like opium. Or..something, I don’t know. 

Obviously people who makes this kind of comment tends to lack abstract imagination. 

Umm, what “scientists” are we talking about here exactly? You do realize this is Perez Hilton providing this news, right? Maybe you can direct us to a more legitimate source of information.

Why would this have any impact on us if he did ? Was pot even around in those times, really? 

Maybe he was just creative.  I’m a writer, too, and refuse to use any substances.  Besides that, leave his body alone!  Have some respect for the dead!  I don’t want anyone poking around my body after I’ve been dead for hundreds of years.

@RestlessPhoenix@xanga - Okay, that makes more sense.  I thought it was ridiculous to poke around with his remains just to see if he smoked pot or not, on no evidence other than “he couldn’t have written all that without pot”.

I love Sassy Gay Friend!!!!

He didn’t think up most of the tragedies, the stories were written way before he came along.  He just retold them.