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Tobacco plant altered to produce five psychedelic drugs (www.newscientist.com)

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[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

a) is it BS

The tobacco plant is a model plant, the go-to for genetic engineering experiments. So often when scientists want to test creating a bio-factory, they will try to modify a tobacco plant.

I am knowledgeable in ethnobotany and psychedelics and I cannot see what this might produce other than nausea and delirium.

The idea is not to smoke the resulting tobacco plant with some funky mix of psychedelics. But to extract and purify the compounds from the bio-factory. Resulting in a better production chain than however the compounds are typically made today.

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The idea is not to smoke the resulting[...]

Well that's just no fun