Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT

pstuart

One rare happy surprise coming from the Feds is accelerating research into psychedelics research for mental health. That said, it remains egregious that psychedelics are still scheduled as being highly illegal for personal use. They undeniably are not without risks but they also can have huge rewards, and those who champion bodily autonomy in other contexts should be consistent across the board.

ElijahLynn

In their new study, published in Science Advances, they describe how they mapped the DMT biosynthetic pathway and engineered a type of tobacco plant to produce five different natural psychedelics. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3034

coder4life

Here, take my money! Mail the seeds to: ... ...

sonorous_sub

Big Tobacco: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

burnt-resistor

If true, I can think of at least 6 people in biotech who would try to GM psychedelic tomacco.

backtoyoujim

flavor country was actually the tamest of the countries