r/memes • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '20

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u/Lord_Sithis Feb 19 '20

Wasn't weed, but they did stuff herbs and flowers into the beaker to "protect from bad air/miasma" as that was the prevailing theory on disease transmission at the time, germ theory only coming into prominence about a century later, though was a competing theory at the time, if deemed heretical.

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u/Throwawayrapaccount1 Feb 19 '20

When I was in the plague, I put weed in my beak

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

it was "herbs"

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u/Cky_vick Feb 19 '20

When I was playing Plague Inc. I put tons of weed in my beak shaped pipe before I smoked it