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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Now do a real life Tomacco!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 121 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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

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  • [+] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like we already had a plant for this

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Only mathematicians still like throwing rads around

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Now do yeast

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I do not approve this message.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

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

    But I can't feel my face

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

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

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