Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT(phys.org)
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Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-tobacco-psychedelics-psilocybin-dmt.html
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the contradiction of championing bodily autonomy in only one area but not all has always bothered me. you either support it or you don’t. we still have work to do on shifting the overton window
Big Tobacco: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
big tobacco playing the long game and pivoting to psychedelics is not something i saw coming
they already pivoted to legal weed
If true, I can think of at least 6 people in biotech who would try to GM psychedelic tomacco.
flavor country was actually the tamest of the countries
Here, take my money!
Mail the seeds to:
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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
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3034
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.