Shakespeare Liked Drugs

By Mark Lorenz on April 15th, 2010

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Right now there’s a beautiful visual image in my head. It’s William Shakespeare, in a ruffled scarf, dancing around singing Afroman. If you haven’t had this image in your head, you’re either not a writer for Family Guy – or aware that Shakespeare liked to indulge in drugs.

Yes. It’s absolutely shocking, I know. Shakespeare was a member of the literati who liked to indulge in hallucinogens. Stop crying, this doesn’t mean his plays were any less of a monumental achievement. It just means at dinner parties he had a tendency to talk about how awesome plants were and try to dress his dogs up in frilly collars. Much like bored suburban moms, only he wrote the greatest plays of all time. But scientists have explored the playwright’s garden and discovered clay pipes with traces of hallucinogenic drugs and marijuana.

Shakespeare be rockin’ the endo, ya’ll.

This has been common knowledge, but I just found out about it. Hence the enthusiastic article. Other writers who I hope have been smoking a lot of pot? Dante, Stephanie Meyer, and that guy that wrote A Million Little Pieces. I hope he smokes a lot of pot.

Because no amount I intake will ever make me forget how terrible that book was.