It was a beautiful gesture but in the end they realized what a tremendous waste it would be on such good weed not to smoke it. There was a seed, I saw it in one

It was a beautiful gesture but in the end they realized what a tremendous waste it would be on such good weed not to smoke it. There was a seed, I saw it in one of the pics from the article. What if it was viable? What midevil type of weed would that be?