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
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.
The gene sequence is public knowledge, published in academic papers. You can buy everything including the custom sequence to do the CRISPR process online.
44 Comments
KraeuterRoy@feddit.org · 78 pts · 1y
Now do a real life Tomacco!
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 9 pts · 1y
Tooommmmacccooooo!!!!!!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
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@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
This reminded me the tomeato episode of DIlbert.
Geodad@lemm.ee · 55 pts · 1y
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 1y
They better call them wacky tabacky
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
I'm still on the tomacco train
AppleTea@lemmy.zip · 55 pts · 1y
...the coca plant could already do that...?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 113 pts · 1y
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 · 14 pts · 1y
I bet traffickers are gonna be real busy smuggling legal (pre-smuggled) items because of these tariffs.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 1y
'Psst, need some eggs? I know a guy...'
lolrightythen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Lol! They're so fragile - one or two hiding places quickly come to mind.
"Mexico doesn't produce white eggs"
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
Fair Trade Coke
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Gotta support local businesses y'know?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y
And growing tobacco is Not AS suspicious as coca
Xatolos@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 1y
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
I invite you to try to grow coca plants in your backyard. You will not succeed, for several reasons...
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 1y
I feel like we already had a plant for this
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
But maybe this'll grow in more regions, breaking up the bloody monopoly, making coke more ethical
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
"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?"
stevedice@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Big tobacco is probably less ethical than cartels.
GiraffeNeckInKnot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
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.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
That's so cool lol
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 1y
I wonder if you'd get the numbing effect of cocaine when smoking the leaves like tobacco
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 1y
No, smoking cocaine (aka cocaine hydrochloride) does not do much unless you first chemically "free the base" (aka crack cocaine).
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
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@programming.dev · 16 pts · 1y
Only mathematicians still like throwing rads around
vrek@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y
And x-ray technicians. If your ehs representative say there are too many rads.... RUN!
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Physicists also use rads for circular motions.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Fallout RADs system: Fuck my drag, right?
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
I disagree. It's too rad not to use.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
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.
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Based and crackhead pilled.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
not tubular, dude. not tubular at all.
interpolate@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
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.
untorquer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
That sounds like my experience with the real thing. Didn't really do anything but kill my alcohol buzz.
x00z@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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 · 15 pts · 1y
Now do yeast
latenightnoir@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
I knew smoking'd pay off if I just kept at it! (kidding)
mycelium_underground@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
You can also just buy coca seeds. The magic powder is still quite a few steps away from that.
letsgo@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
I do not approve this message.
nectar45@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
Yes you do
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Tilsonburg? My back still aches when I hear that word.
But I can't feel my face
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y
Yeah, people won't stop talking when they're coked up.