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.
Now do yeast
You can modify tobacco plants to produce a wide variety of pharmaceuticals. It’s a very versatile plant. Last I knew, the University of Kentucky had a large field of various strains of experimental tobacco plants on their research farm.
They better call them wacky tabacky
…the coca plant could already do that…?
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
Tobacco is easier to grow in more places. This makes it easier to grow and produce medical grade cocaine.
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I feel like we already had a plant for this
But maybe this’ll grow in more regions, breaking up the bloody monopoly, making coke more ethical
“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?”
