• MinnesotaGoddam
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      fun fact, nicotine is produced in the roots. a dude in lake oswego oregon made tomacco in 2003. you graft a tomato plant onto some tobacco roots. you can also use tomato roots with tobacco grafted on to get tobacco without nicotine.

      granted, I read about this over a decade ago so some details may be fuzzy

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      But maybe this’ll grow in more regions, breaking up the bloody monopoly, making coke more ethical

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        “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?”

      • GiraffeNeckInKnot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I was scrolling down and looking at tv show, leaving my mouse idling and this pop up ‘more’ align perfectly with your ‘more’ word in the sentence.

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    I wonder if you’d get the numbing effect of cocaine when smoking the leaves like tobacco

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      No, smoking cocaine (aka cocaine hydrochloride) does not do much unless you first chemically “free the base” (aka crack cocaine).

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        Fun fact, “free base” is the origin of the of the term “based”.

        Originally it was not a good thing.

        Language changes, so now based is fucking rad. And rad is not a term used by anyone.

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        Can confirm. I was once given a cocaine cigarette without my knowledge and it did have enough of a stimulant effect for me to notice something was off (though I was expecting a spliff, so it was easier to realize that it was having the opposite effect), but I absolutely did not get any kind of high.

        It was mostly just increased heart rate and anxiety with a little nausea, like being overcaffeinated.

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          That sounds like my experience with the real thing. Didn’t really do anything but kill my alcohol buzz.

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        Depending on the dose it could still do some stuff. Just like sniffing freebase cocaine can also give a tiny bit of effect.

        Not that one should be doing that.

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    I knew smoking’d pay off if I just kept at it! (kidding)

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    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.