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While I agree with KnifeMissle's points, I will also put forth that the English language is full of implied predicates / clauses, and they actually are accepted (not just lazily ignored).
Thus:
"Play would have had to have smoked weed (implied: to write that music)" basically means that, in order for the music to come out the way it did, it is posited that some weed-smokin' would be /was involved. The word "would", in this case, does not denote a choice by the subject, but rather refers to the condition of probability.
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I wish "would of" would die a quick death, along with pluralising using apostrophes (apostrophe's!) and the misspellings "congradulations" and "definately."
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