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Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT
- coder4life 4mo agoHere, take my money! Mail the seeds to: ... ...
- pstuart 4mo agoOne rare happy surprise coming from the Feds is accelerating research into psychedelics research for mental health. That said, it remains egregious that psychedelics are still scheduled as being highly illegal for personal use. They undeniably are not without risks but they also can have huge rewards, and those who champion bodily autonomy in other contexts should be consistent across the board.
- cybercatgurrl 4mo agothe contradiction of championing bodily autonomy in only one area but not all has always bothered me. you either support it or you don’t. we still have work to do on shifting the overton window
- fragmede 4mo agoOther than for women, that is.
- pstuart 4mo agoThat facet was built into my ask, yes.
- ElijahLynn 4mo agoIn their new study, published in Science Advances, they describe how they mapped the DMT biosynthetic pathway and engineered a type of tobacco plant to produce five different natural psychedelics. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3034 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3034
- sonorous_sub 4mo agoBig Tobacco: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
- cybercatgurrl 4mo agobig tobacco playing the long game and pivoting to psychedelics is not something i saw coming
- chadgpt3 4mo agothey already pivoted to legal weed
- burnt-resistor 4mo agoIf true, I can think of at least 6 people in biotech who would try to GM psychedelic tomacco.
- backtoyoujim 4mo agoflavor country was actually the tamest of the countries