The gene sequence is public knowledge, published in academic papers. You can buy everything including the custom sequence to do the CRISPR process online.
Just saying.
Now do yeast
…the coca plant could already do that…?
Tobacco is a hardier plant that can be grown in more places than coca AFAIK.
Now you can support your community with locally grown and cultivated cocaine, instead of relying on imports. Lmao
I invite you to try to grow coca plants in your backyard. You will not succeed, for several reasons…
Tobacco is easier to grow in more places. This makes it easier to grow and produce medical grade cocaine.
You can modify tobacco plants to produce a wide variety of pharmaceuticals. It’s a very versatile plant. Last I knew, the University of Kentucky had a large field of various strains of experimental tobacco plants on their research farm.
They better call them wacky tabacky
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Yes you do
Now do a real life Tomacco!
fun fact, nicotine is produced in the roots. a dude in lake oswego oregon made tomacco in 2003. you graft a tomato plant onto some tobacco roots. you can also use tomato roots with tobacco grafted on to get tobacco without nicotine.
granted, I read about this over a decade ago so some details may be fuzzy
I feel like we already had a plant for this
But maybe this’ll grow in more regions, breaking up the bloody monopoly, making coke more ethical
I was scrolling down and looking at tv show, leaving my mouse idling and this pop up ‘more’ align perfectly with your ‘more’ word in the sentence.
That’s so cool lol
“Are you holding?” “Yeah, I’ve got A+ grade pure Colombian here.” “Yeeeaaahhh, I don’t wanna be ‘that guy’ but do you have any ethical coke?”
I wonder if you’d get the numbing effect of cocaine when smoking the leaves like tobacco
No, smoking cocaine (aka cocaine hydrochloride) does not do much unless you first chemically “free the base” (aka crack cocaine).
Fun fact, “free base” is the origin of the of the term “based”.
Originally it was not a good thing.
Language changes, so now based is fucking rad. And rad is not a term used by anyone.
Only mathematicians still like throwing rads around
Physicists also use rads for circular motions.
And x-ray technicians. If your ehs representative say there are too many rads… RUN!
Fallout RADs system: Fuck my drag, right?
