Just a sip could get you high

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3022, 2015, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Humble fungi and a homebrewing kit could soon do what military might and diplomacy failed to--halt the thriving poppy industry in Afghanistan, the source of 80 percent of the world's opium. Genetically engineered yeasts could make it easy to produce opiates such as morphine anywhere, cutting out the international, traffickers and making such drugs cheap and more readily available. If homebrew drugs become widespread, it would make the Sisyphean nature of stopping the supply of illegal narcotics even more obvious than it is now. A growing number of drugs, scents and flavors once obtainable only from plants can now be made using