• @Droggelbecher
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      2010 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    4520 hours ago

    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.

    • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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      33 hours ago

      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

  • @[email protected]
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    2323 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      2523 hours ago

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

      • @x00z
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        26 hours ago

        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.

      • @chaogomu
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        2821 hours ago

        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.

        • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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          13 hours ago

          And rad is not a term used by anyone.

          not tubular, dude. not tubular at all.

        • @Manifish_Destiny
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          920 hours ago

          rad is not a term used by anyone.

          I disagree. It’s too rad not to use.

        • skulblaka
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          921 hours ago

          Based still has the innate connotation of doing your own thing without caring how others perceive you, which can still be a crackhead kind of trait.

      • @idiomaddict
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        1319 hours ago

        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.

        • @untorquer
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          314 hours ago

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

  • @latenightnoir
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    1024 hours ago

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