Yeah, you could just use the virus to transplant a new piece of DNA into the cells of the plant. This is completely within the realms of things science can do right now. This is the future and probably how cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy will be treated in humans.

If they ever invent a plant that you can't overwater there will be no more questions here and RIU would probably dry up like a crack whore's coochie and never be heard from again.

That is fascinating. I WANT A SEED! I hereby guarantee whomever; that I will dedicate my growing life to raising that seed in a fitting and proper manner. In addition, I promise to spread the seed of this beautiful new plant far and wide and singing its praises to the end of my days. In fact, I will legally change my name to Johnny Orangeweed.

Please bless ME with a Orangeweed seed.

Thank you.

What we really need these scientists to do is make some kind of spores that grow into trichomes off of a piece of paper

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Dammit. We have been conned.

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Oranges that get you high: A Florida Biochemist designs a citrus tree with THC.

From: mjacobs@washington.edu
To: holler@sttf.org
Subject: Re: Orange article
Wow, that was a really nice piece of science fiction! Found out about it reading a Phish message board (Andy Gadiel's Phish Blog), and you had a lot of them fooled, and drooling over extra special screwdrivers! Anyway, I don't usually run across plant-molecular biology-based sci-fi in the press, so my hat is off to you (and your very good cloning summary, it's worthy of a college course). Cheers.
Mike Jacobs, UW Botany
Phish fans let the cat out of the bag and the Pot-Orange story hitchhiked its way across the USENET, various listservs, e-mail forwarding lists, and the like. Most often without the disclaimer attached. It appeared in a print newspaper under another writer's byline. The BBC called Florida State University in search of Professor Nanofsky. So did hundreds of regular folks who just wanted some seeds. The Hartford Courant put a reporter on the story. Talk-radio hosts across the country discussed the implications of crops bioengineered with narcotics in mind.
Subject: Re: Where did our Drug laws come from?
From: gretchen@centuryinter.net
Date: 1998/11/20
Newsgroups: pgh.opinion,misc.survivalism,talk.politics.drugs
Consider the following article mentioned on Chuck Harter's For the People radio program. If you have a way to search for the original article, I would love to find it. Chuck described it as the strangest story he has ever heard in his life.
In 1984 a genetic biophysics researcher had a 16 year old son. His son was stopped by the GA (or Fla?) state patrol....
The post continues on to paraphrase the story of Hugo Nanovsky, adding quotations from "interviews" (not the World Wide Wire Service story) with the professor in which he expounds upon the political beliefs that led him to create the Pot Orange. The paraphrase is longer than the article as it was originally published.

How awful. My heart goes out to you, Picasso.

I remember when I was younger, hearing about tomatoes with THC... but that could all be hearsay.

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My dreams of being Johnny Orangeweed were dashed up the cold hard rocks of reality. Now where is that plant Doctor? Time to get gene splicing and what not my brother. Make a THC Orange tree and I will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.

This reminds me of "Tomacco" if anyone remembers that Simpsons episode.....

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What,Me Worry??

Hahaha I remember that episode.

"Orange tree"? Pah. I say we make it tomatoes, so we still have an excuse to buy hydroponic equipment

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