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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.

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team found CBD

Meh, someone call me when it’s THC lmao

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considered a weed

huehue

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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.

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Did they find chlorophyll in it too?

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Chlorophyll? More like BORE-ophyll!

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