I feel like we already had a plant for this
Let's gooooo
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DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
But maybe this’ll grow in more regions, breaking up the bloody monopoly, making coke more ethical
GiraffeNeckInKnot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours 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.
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 11 hours 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?”
KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 1 day ago
Now do a real life Tomacco!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 hours 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 day ago
Tooommmmacccooooo!!!
muhyb@programming.dev 1 day ago
This reminded me the tomeato episode of DIlbert.
Geodad@lemm.ee 1 day 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 day ago
They better call them wacky tabacky
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m still on the tomacco train
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
…the coca plant could already do that…?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 day 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
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 21 hours ago
And tobacco is Not AS suspicious as coca
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I bet traffickers are gonna be real busy smuggling legal (pre-smuggled) items because of these tarrifs.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Tobacco is easier to grow in more places. This makes it easier to grow and produce medical grade cocaine.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
I invite you to try to grow coca plants in your backyard. You will not succeed, for several reasons…
letsgo@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
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nectar45@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Yes you do
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I wonder if you’d get the numbing effect of cocaine when smoking the leaves like tobacco
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 19 hours 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 day ago
Now do yeast
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I knew smoking’d pay off if I just kept at it! (kidding)
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Tilsonburg? My back still aches when I hear that word.
But I can’t feel my face
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Yeah, people won’t stop talking when they’re coked up.
mycelium_underground@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.