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Home-Brew: Scientists Tweak Yeast to Grow Morphine
NBC ^
| 5-19-15
| Maggie Fox
Posted on 05/19/2015 8:16:04 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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Grow your own heroin?
To: smokingfrog
That means the Feds are about to start selling hardcore drugs over the counter, right? It doesn’t matter if it fries people’s brains and turns them into zombies as long as there’s profit in it, right?
To: smokingfrog
Cats already out of the bag if this is being reported. It will hit the black market fairly soon.
To: smokingfrog
Beer AND Morphine?!? Is there nothing yeast can’t do?
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:25:53 PM PDT
by
Rebel_Ace
(HITLER! There, Zero to Godwin in 5.2 seconds.)
To: smokingfrog
I....think we just defeated the Taliban forever...?
They’re finished, I think, and from no bullet.
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:25:58 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: smokingfrog
“...simple brewer’s yeast...”
I foresee a boom in home brewing.
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:26:47 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: smokingfrog
Grow your own heroin? More like brew your own heroin....
Doncha think?
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:28:26 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: jsanders2001
guess you want “all knowing all caring” unaccountable government bureaucrats deciding what to ban and how to control us little people because we can't make the decision that is best for us by ourselves so we need big brother. Notice this thinking led to now Obama getting the FCC to start regulating the Internet on June 12. so I thought i’d get this post in under the wire. These all knowing gov idiots also banned DMAA, and ligthbulbs recently , lightbulbs because they say they cause global warming which is a hoax anyway.
Notice how it is salt, sugar, fast food ,light-bulbs etc. that is killing us and or destroying the world. used to be eggs, fat,ebola, ozone layer, peak oil. what happened to those imaginary hobgoblins of the media. most things seem to be so dangerous and bad the media says. actually the only things that have harmed me are the media and government. those are some of the only bad things the media,government and collectivism all really the same thing collectivism
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:32:42 PM PDT
by
Democrat_media
(Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
To: smokingfrog
Damn Libertarian scientists, anyway!
To: smokingfrog
it is critical that appropriate policies for controlling such strains ...OK. I see what they are thinking. But I question whether there are actually any brain cells operating here. How do you control a yeast strain. Once it's out, it's out. Period. Every junkie will have a pot of his favorite "starter".
To: smokingfrog
I see this killing the micro brew beer craze. the government is going to have regulate home brewing and I see a lot of drug dealers suddenly start taking up the hobby of brewing beer
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:54:26 PM PDT
by
PCPOET7
(BUT MAK)
To: smokingfrog
If somehow a few of those spores get out and distributed on the black market - say goodbye to the #1 cash crop in the middle east. No more $$ for Akbar. That works for me.
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posted on
05/19/2015 8:55:17 PM PDT
by
corkoman
To: smokingfrog
Better living through chemistry or would that be horticulture?
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posted on
05/19/2015 9:05:24 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
Fungi would be horticulture?
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posted on
05/19/2015 9:07:04 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: smokingfrog
From the article:
“biological engineering department at MIT points out that the method isn’t very efficient just yet, and won’t appeal to do-it-yourself drug manufacturers.
“Considering a dose of morphine is 30 mg, this means that 300 liters of yeast would have to be grown for one dose,” he said.
To: Rebel_Ace
Is there nothing yeast cant do? Let me know when it can manufacture a Mariel Hemingway.
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posted on
05/19/2015 9:11:36 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: Carthego delenda est
Yep. You're gonna need a pretty big brewing vat.
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posted on
05/19/2015 9:24:51 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: JimSEA
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posted on
05/19/2015 9:33:01 PM PDT
by
null and void
(In a world where lies and propaganda masquerade freely as truth, communication is everything.)
To: smokingfrog
Drug farmers.............
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posted on
05/19/2015 9:33:30 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: hosepipe
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posted on
05/19/2015 9:36:21 PM PDT
by
null and void
(In a world where lies and propaganda masquerade freely as truth, communication is everything.)
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