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Lowly Moss-Like Plant Seems to Copy Cannabis
- Asparagirl 8y ago”In what may be the only chemical synthesis paper ever to thank incense sellers in its acknowledgments...”
- superkuh 8y agoMaybe this is weird in modern journals but from before ~1950 or so it was really common.
- stareatgoats 8y agoeh - no, it was never really common to credit incense sellers in journals. Stop using those lowly moss-like plants please.
- cwkoss 8y agoFound someone who wrote about attempting to smoke this plant and an extract of it - they reported a weak effect. http://www.bluelight.org/vb/archive/index.php/t-642032.html http://www.bluelight.org/vb/archive/index.php/t-642032.html
- kerbalspacepro 8y agoYou just gotta artificially select it the right way!
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- notananthem 8y agoI've got that crap all over my house, trees, garden
- karmenblack 8y agoLet's use that super rare hard to come by plant instead of weed growing effortlessly virtually anywhere...
- anigbrowl 8y agoKinda irritating that a nominally scientific magazine couldn't be bothered to articulate the molecular structures.
- csours 8y agoThey link to it: http://cpb.pharm.or.jp/cpb/200210/c10_1390.pdf http://cpb.pharm.or.jp/cpb/200210/c10_1390.pdf
- gotocake 8y agoI can’t stress enough just how nominal their commitment to science is these days. An elderly relative bought me many years subscription to SciAm and it’s mostly useful as toilet roll. You get the occasional scholarly article, but the majority is either “science writers” gushing over something they don’t understand, or thinly veiled politics. Hell, I agree with most of their political leanings, but I’m not interested in reading them from that source. It’s sad, but the majority of science in Scientific American is in the name.
- JHH_18 8y agoYou can reverse that curse. Look up American Scientist. Really.
- gotocake 8y ago...Marry me.
- i_am_nomad 8y agoI just visited the American Scientist website. The cover story: “Selective inattention to women’s experiences in STEM leads to a chilly workplace climate for women, who pick up on even the subtlest cues.” So, more thinly veiled politics. Pass.
- specialist 8y agoTheir transition from hard science to popularizing science was a deliberate response to the anti-intellectual tide. At the time, it felt like a loss, but I understood the motivation and supported their goals. Sadly, I don't know that their efforts have moved the needle.
- maxander 8y agoThe definition of “wort” includes “used in names of plants and herbs, especially those used, especially formerly, as food or medicinally, e.g., butterwort, woundwort” ... so it sounds likely that some English speaking culture already realized that liverwort had medicinal value. (C.f. St John’s Wort, an herb with some evidence of antidepressant effects.)
- aldoushuxley001 8y agothat's a fascinating tidbit
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- Arubis 8y agoSurely, I can’t be the only one that immediately flashes on the mold Hal ingests in Infinite Jest.
- aldoushuxley001 8y agoCBD has incredible medicinal value, I wonder if PET (perrottetinene) will end up being a similarly powerful treatment.