It’s going to be a while before brown blobs grown in the dark overtake quality bud, but this must have incredible medical implications. I wonder if anybody has dabbed any yet?
Boffins put the FUN into fungus by rigging yeast to squirt out the active ingredients in cannabis
Greener than growing green, Berkeley biologists claim
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/01/yeast_cannabis_brewing/
Apparently, the process also can generate cannabinoids that don’t exist in nature, offering up more targets for medical research.
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What? No, it has had an effect on the research. UC Berkley is a state college, using public funds, but in a state with legal pot. That makes it possible (not always, depending on the state, the university system, and the funding sources) to do scientific work like that which would have been completely illegal ten years ago.
As for whether El Chapo could have been funding this research ten years ago, no, it’s almost certainly cheaper to farm fields of pot using cheap labor than to develop a world-class research lab staffed by experts. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, this may change.
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Totally. What we need is yeast that make acid. Once those got out of the lab, it would make prohibition way harder, since anyone, anywhere in the world, could make it as easy as home brewing.
Although the thought of acid being that easy to make, and available, is a bit concerning. It would make life more interesting, to be sure.
Well, if it weren’t for folks so think it’s their business what other people do with their bodies, we wouldn’t need a mechanism that easy to make it.
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