Florida Biochemist designs a citrus tree with THC

The Crit ^ | 05 Oct 2008 | The Crit

[Eye of Unk]

This is funnier than shit, the jokes will run into next year.

I can imagine this spreading out of control, soon apples, pears and carrots will have THC.

Obama is going to get wind of this and give this guy $100M to develop it I guess.

[willgolfforfood]

I'm kind of a noob on this subject. Do you smoke the orange? Eat it? Just juice it, and ignore the pulp? Etc. Etc.

And if this is possible, I don't know why dozens of fruits and vegetables can't be made to dispense dozens or even hundeds of legal and illegal drugs. The permutations of possible "infected" fruits and vegetables is probably mind-boggling, with today's bio-chemical manipulations tools.

[jwparkerjr]

What a great comeback for FSU when they are reminded it was a U of F prof, Dr. Cade, who came up with Gatorade. I'd much rather have a big, tall glass of cold OJ with THP than a glass of Gatorade.

[Responsibility2nd]

In the summer of 1984, 10th-grader Irwin Nanofsky and a friend were driving down the Apalachee Parkway on the way home from baseball practice when they were pulled over by a police officer for a minor traffic infraction.

After Nanofsky produced his driver’s license the police officer asked permission to search the vehicle. In less than two minutes, the officer found a homemade pipe underneath the passenger’s seat of the Ford Aerostar belonging to the teenage driver’s parents. The minivan was seized, and the two youths were taken into custody on suspicion of drug possession.

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Based on what I’ve read here. I find reason to doubt and discredit this article.

Anybody know why?

Hint: It has to do with the vehicle....

[posterchild]

I think you smoke it in a pipe carved out of a cucumber.

[Drew68]

What a “F’n” genius...I hope your Mom is proud of you Mr. Nanofsky...your contribution to the world is invaluable. Thanks dumbass...

Maybe the cops should have given Mr. Nanofsky his van back.

I'm all for anything that highlights the absurdity of our nation's useless drug laws.

[BGHater]

The story has been around since pre 2001. It’s still a joke.

[redstateconfidential]

Only in is content but not its character.

[ExcursionGuy84]

Also, the Ford Aerostar van wasn’t around in 1984 but it was introduced for the first time in in 1985.

[snarks_when_bored]

Guess all those starving people in Obama’s birth Continent have to wait in line for sustainable crops while Mr Nanofsky rolls on the floor and kicks his smelly Birkenstocks in a tirade against Johnny Law and their unfair persecution of his stoned slacker spawn.

"stoned slacker spawn"...heh

[Centurion2000]

If he REALLY wanted to jack with the feds, do the same thing for bermuda and rye grass.

But then ... don't advertise until you've been dropping seeds on lawns for a few years around the nation.

[Badeye]

I think this is hilariously funny.

[longtermmemmory]

all the loont left wing groups agianst genetic modification foods must be going nuts.

Of course this is crazy because it will be impossible to control the cross breeding with normal oranges for those who have no interest in pot heads.

this is the alice b toklas pizza attack.

[Responsibility2nd]

See my post # 24. You win!

Even though you didn’t even know you were playing.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Granted he is a little radical, but our Drug Laws are FUBAR. Nothing like a little chaos now and then.

[MarineBrat]

..all that effort because his sons a pothead.

The article stated that the potheads were the parents.

[ccmay]

The timeline of the article suggests it was written ten years ago.

[Free_SJersey]

It's a shame about the Aerostar, a 1984 would be a collectors item today since Ford didn't produce it until 1986.

I call B.S. on the timeline and probably the whole story

[mysterio]

police informed him that the Aerostar minivan would be permanently remanded to police custody.

Absolute insanity. We have given up our privacy and property rights to this stupid failed drug war.

[Vigilanteman]

I wouldn't be so sure. The university which my Dad retired from signed over a lifesaving drug (for calves)which he had developed as part of his package. Their reasoning: If they successfully commercialized the formula, the state would just cut their appropriation.

As for THC, heavy duty jogging will produce THC naturally in the body. That's a lot cheaper way than growing a THC producing orange tree.