So my friends in middle school weren’t too far off when they started taking random weeds from the yard and started rolling them up and smoking them 🤔

The team found CBD in the fruits and flowers of a plant known as Trema micrantha blume, a shrub which grows across much of the South American country and is often considered a weed, molecular biologist Rodrigo Moura Neto of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro told AFP last year.

This shouldn’t be surprising. There are only so many ways to productively arrange organic compounds, and convergent evolution is well-known.

Given similar environmental pressure, immeasurable responses will be tried, and the most effective ones will self-select.

Did they find chlorophyll in it too?