a friend of mine who is a biology prof. at UC riverside specializes in spiders and their silks. because of the amazing properties of spider silks (tensile strength, flexiblity, elasticity, etc.) some people want to find ways to utilize the silk. unfortunatley its really hard to extract the silk from the individual spiders.

to solve this problem, she put spider silk producing DNA into a tomato plant and that tomato plant produces spider silk proteins at from every cell of the plant. the same could be done with THC.

having a THC producing tomato would be easy to do in comparison to other trans-species DNA transplanting that has been done (ie. spider silk-tomatoes, or glow in the dark mice)

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Are you kidding me?? That would be brilliant.
Or, even better, if all the wheat got mutated into being THC-producing! AND THE RICE! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Monsanto has us cornholed

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Aren't 1/4 of Big Bud plants polyploidy? I may be totally wrong about this, but

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I'm a molecular biology and genetics student and we read about this sort of stuff all the time in the courses. yes it is a very doable thing, and I don't think it would require millions of dollars of research. They don't have to solve the thc producing mechanism and the gene interactions. You are not trying to find a cure to a disease like huntingtons or parkinsons. It should be enough to locate the thc producing gene by doing knockout studies. You could cross the 2 species in cellular level, eliminating the factors that prevents the crossing of the two species or using some other trick. It could be done well in 1-2 years in a sufficient genetics lab. Hell if I had my own lab I would get right to it.

What kind of funding are we talking about? Under 2M?

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1-2 years in a sufficient genetics lab?

Build a organization willing to do this work, then enough funding for 1-2 of actual research then another year to actually produce the end product...

Were talking tens of millions....

unless you know a way to do all that for cheaper, PLUS at the end of your work, your just gonna get a visit by the DEA to classify your product on the Controlled substance list, so all your work is in VAIN...

Lets just keep pot, marijuana..

I happen to like ORanges, tomatoes, ect that dont get me stoned too..

Relax, there are 100's of varieties of tomatoes and oranges as it is. Some natural, some man-made. A new marijuana orange won't jump into your shopping cart and then slip down your throat on their own when you aren't looking.

If only they did

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