…the coca plant could already do that…?
Let's gooooo
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AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I bet traffickers are gonna be real busy smuggling legal (pre-smuggled) items because of these tarrifs.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 month ago
And tobacco is Not AS suspicious as coca
Xatolos@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Tobacco is easier to grow in more places. This makes it easier to grow and produce medical grade cocaine.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I invite you to try to grow coca plants in your backyard. You will not succeed, for several reasons…
Geodad@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They better call them wacky tabacky
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m still on the tomacco train
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I feel like we already had a plant for this
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But maybe this’ll grow in more regions, breaking up the bloody monopoly, making coke more ethical
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“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?”
GiraffeNeckInKnot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I wonder if you’d get the numbing effect of cocaine when smoking the leaves like tobacco
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
No, smoking cocaine (aka cocaine hydrochloride) does not do much unless you first chemically “free the base” (aka crack cocaine).
chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
x00z@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Now do yeast
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I knew smoking’d pay off if I just kept at it! (kidding)
mycelium_underground@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You can also just buy coca seeds. The magic powder is still quite a few steps away from that.
letsgo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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nectar45@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yes you do
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yeah, people won’t stop talking when they’re coked up.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Tilsonburg? My back still aches when I hear that word.
But I can’t feel my face
KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 1 month ago
Now do a real life Tomacco!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month 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
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 month ago
Tooommmmacccooooo!!!
muhyb@programming.dev 1 month ago
This reminded me the tomeato episode of DIlbert.