Was William Shakespeare a pipe head?
According to a research conducted by South African Journal of Science report back in 2001, The South African Police Services Forensic Science Laboratory in Pretoria findings revealed that traces of cannabis and cocaine were found in 24 clay pipes from the garden of the famous great poet and author William Shakespeare. The presence of cocaine was noted in 2 of the pipes. Francis Thackeray, the paleontologist from Transvaal Museum in Pretoria at that time who initiated the pipe study at that time, believes he might have an explanation, "We can't prove that Shakespeare smoked these pipes, but we do now at least know what his contemporaries were smoking" Thackeray says. According to recent reports, Thackeray who is currently the Director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, along with a team of Scientists formerly submitted a request to dig up the remains of the Bard to the Church of England. The remains of William Sh...