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Tobacco rule

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If we can farm nicotine with modified tomato plants... Can we grow cocaine tomatoes, which are easy as hell to grow? Asking for a friend.

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- I'll settle for good tomatoes year-round, minus the coke. I mean, sure, coke tomatoes would totally supercharge everyone's summer. But then the Big Dark of winter would suck so much more.
  
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  Do you have any concept of manic winter cleaning? Have some ceviche or tacos with salsa and get productive, clean the house with a toothbrush or write your novel and accompanying screen play during those long winter months.
  
  S.A.D. no more, geek on tomatoes and get shit done.
  
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- Tomacco was a fictional product on the Simpsons, unless I missed something.
  
  Which, if i I did, hey, neat.
  
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- I never got round to it, but when researching I think tobacco is about the same difficulty to grow as tomatoes
  
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  Tobacco takes about 90-120 days, tomato is 70-90 days.
  
  Tomatoes also produce a large amount of seeds/fruit and are substantially easier to grow densely in a canopy with under hanging fruit.
  
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Eric Clapton has entered the chat

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- Or the entire music industry in the 80s and 90s. I heard some seriously weird stories as an intern.
  
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  The whole entertainment industry really, Blues Brothers famously had a cocaine budget.
  
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  Oh man, you've gotta share some of those!
  
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- or JJ Cale
  
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  She don't lie
  
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- Dude just likes that its white.
  
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Tabacaine would be a good commodity in a space game

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New way to treat my ADHD just dropped.

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This sounds like a coca plant with extra steps.

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- It sounds like a coca plant that can grow in more than one region.
  
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- Talk to me when cocaine silk goat milk hits the Boston mahket
  
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Tobaccoke

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I'm uh...pretty sure we already have a plant that grows cocaine?

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- Yeah but that's illegal.
  
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- A plant ☘️ maybe a mechanical plant 🤨
  
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As always, it would be simpler to use yeast... It's going to get wild when these yeast strains get into the illicit market and people are literally brewing up coke or morphine in their bathtub.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/scientists-have-made-cocaine-from-a-tobacco-plant

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- I have actually wondered why this isn't a thing. You can order a yeast 2.0 sample from a supplier and the relevant DNA strand from a DNA printing company, multiply the DNA and introduce it to the yeast and you're game.
  
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  I think it's the "introduce it to the yeast" part that's the hard part. But I can't imagine the types of precautions the people who already have a morphine producing yeast strain (yes some people already invented it) must take. The illicit value of that is like priceless.
  
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- Let's maximize that yield. A thousand cultures an a bit of radioactive substance to up the mutation rate. It could be automated.
  
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I like how OP thought they were in 196 so they added 'rule' to the title haha

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- I post a L O T
  
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  Prove it!
  
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- 196 ? ty
  
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  I'm talking about !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone where you have to add "rule" to your title
  
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Wait until she learns about coca.

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- Well that's the thing - we import tons of tobacco. We don't import tons of coca, without knowing exactly where it's going.
  
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  Coca Cola is permitted to import coca via an agreement with the DEA and produces an estimated $3 billion worth of actual cocaine per year.
  
  Must be nice to be a mega corp.
  
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Someone finally made a reason to live in Virginia

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Parliaments gonna stop having the recessed filter because the cocaine is just gonna be in the cigarette.

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~~upper~~ ~~downer~~ I'll have the -er

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Turns out there’s already a plant that produces cocaine in its leaves

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- Don't tell anyone! They might start an industry around it.
  
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I volunteer to be part of the first human testing of this.

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Interesting. I can legally grow and process enough tobacco for my own needs.

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Based

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It's illegal and I don't think this plant can survive it here in the United States

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- Wow. What a Debbie Downer.
  
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