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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You can also just buy coca seeds. The magic powder is still quite a few steps away from that.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Now do a real life Tomacco!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Tooommmmacccooooo!!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] muhyb 4 points 1 week ago

This reminded me the tomeato episode of DIlbert.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

...the coca plant could already do that...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I invite you to try to grow coca plants in your backyard. You will not succeed, for several reasons...

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I bet traffickers are gonna be real busy smuggling legal (pre-smuggled) items because of these tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'Psst, need some eggs? I know a guy...'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Lol! They're so fragile - one or two hiding places quickly come to mind.

"Mexico doesn't produce white eggs"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Gotta support local businesses y'know?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And growing tobacco is Not AS suspicious as coca

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Tobacco is easier to grow in more places. This makes it easier to grow and produce medical grade cocaine.

https://www.medicinenet.com/cocaine/article.htm

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They better call them wacky tabacky

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I'm still on the tomacco train

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like we already had a plant for this

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But maybe this'll grow in more regions, breaking up the bloody monopoly, making coke more ethical

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That's so cool lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"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?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Big tobacco is probably less ethical than cartels.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if you'd get the numbing effect of cocaine when smoking the leaves like tobacco

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No, smoking cocaine (aka cocaine hydrochloride) does not do much unless you first chemically "free the base" (aka crack cocaine).

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ICastFist 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Only mathematicians still like throwing rads around

[–] vrek 8 points 1 week ago

And x-ray technicians. If your ehs representative say there are too many rads.... RUN!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Physicists also use rads for circular motions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fallout RADs system: Fuck my drag, right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

rad is not a term used by anyone.

I disagree. It's too rad not to use.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Based still has the innate connotation of doing your own thing without caring how others perceive you, which can still be a crackhead kind of trait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Based and crackhead pilled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And rad is not a term used by anyone.

not tubular, dude. not tubular at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I was once given a cocaine cigarette without my knowledge and it did have enough of a stimulant effect for me to notice something was off (though I was expecting a spliff, so it was easier to realize that it was having the opposite effect), but I absolutely did not get any kind of high.

It was mostly just increased heart rate and anxiety with a little nausea, like being overcaffeinated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That sounds like my experience with the real thing. Didn't really do anything but kill my alcohol buzz.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Depending on the dose it could still do some stuff. Just like sniffing freebase cocaine can also give a tiny bit of effect.

Not that one should be doing that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Now do yeast

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I knew smoking'd pay off if I just kept at it! (kidding)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Tilsonburg? My back still aches when I hear that word.

But I can't feel my face

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do not approve this message.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, people won't stop talking when they're coked up.