Fuck yeah! Finally some good fucking news!
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This isn't exactly a "Simpsons did it", but...
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Tomaccaine
Tomaccaine in the brain!
Tim caine?
We did make a hybrid tomato/potato but that wasn't exactly genetic modification it's just grafting. It could be a great space saving technique though.
iirc if you graft tomato plants onto the potato roots both food crops suffer quality because of the energy being divided
Yeah that would make sense, still a neat experiment.
That's the fun thing about science. Even stuff that doesn't end up being "useful" can still make for fascinating experiments and data. The journey is usually the cool part.
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This will be a blessing to economically disadvantaged rural communities in Appalachia.
... help people manufacture the drug for scientific study...
Hi my name is Scientific Study, give me all your tobaccocaine
Gonna change my name to Tubalcain and grow Tobacaine
smoking is so back
Thanks!
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now that's what I call innovation
I fucking love science
Call me when they figure out how to make a meth tree.
Please leak this to the public. it would be so funny.
I want it. I don't even do cocaine but I love growing weird plants.
Can't wait to try it.
this is the kind of thing my 12 yo self would lobby for
'wow are criminals stupid just make a cobaccaine plant'
I mean - I get all the jokes and everything, but wouldn't this democratization of coca generally be a good thing to the world? At least it might be good for countries that now have a problem with illegal coca production. I don't actually have enough info about that industry, but I would like to hear some opinions from people more familiar. Would the "democratization" of coca be a net benefit? Even if not legalized fully? Would it leech money from cartels/mafia?
The "cartels" (in reality extremely loosely related production and smuggling operations) are pretty much entirely a product of a combination of U.S. foreign and domestic policies, that serve to control money and drug flows within the Americas, providing the U.S. with convenient scapegoats to destabilize trust in governments that don't exactly toe the U.S. line by providing them with guns and money, while also allowing the U.S. to simultaneously tar states that try to exert control over these actors through their own means as 'narco-states'.
Unless these policies, both acknowledged and secretive, are dealt with, there is very little chance that any product brought to domestic market will have a real impact. Policies will simply be changed to continue these foreign and domestic policy objectives.
It's not as though coca is extremely difficult to grow in these tropical regions. It is an artificial scarcity problem already.
That makes sense. It would only work if scarcity is not artificial, but naturally limited resource. Sort of like how worst thing that could happen to a country is they find oil.
Correct.
The domestic policy aspect of this trade, particularly for cocaine, is mostly speculation on my part, cobbled together from both historical accounts, anecdotal evidence, and personal experience.
However, my personal hypothesis is that a byproduct of the cocaine trade being illegal domestically is that it technically serves the same purpose as Jeffrey Epstein did, binding together members of an elite class through shared usage and performance of, what would outside of that class, be an illegal activity. Kind of like how people used to smoke weed to prove they were cool, before everyone and their mother got high all the time.
Cocaine usage is rampant among the financial and governmental class, and being ghouls, they have the best and most pure shit. Having a hit of flour with some cocaine in it is completely different than having the shit near raw. Basically isn't even worth it in the Midwest anymore, especially with some fiend's insistence of cutting with fent. But it also speaks to a tightening of access and usage. There used to be enough cocaine around for crack (differently processed cocaine) to be epidemic, but that shit is not nearly as common, to my understanding.
Point is, the systemic policies and policy objectives are the issue, not anything from the production side.
There is already a plant that produces cocaine in it's leaves.
yeah but can i grow it at my latitude?