Re: Recreational pharmaceuticals by genetic engineering

Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com> writes:

I know this is off-topic for the list...

it's somewhat on-topic.

But why hasn't some cleaver graduate student engineered a common mold or yeast to yield easily extracted (or directly ingestible) common recreational pharmaceuticals? Ideally it would be a perpetual source, like sour dough starter, and easily cultured. Once distributed to the street it would be impossible to stop or track (since no controlled chemicals would be required for production).

My understanding is that access to the eq needed for such hacking (or for creating various harmful little bugs) is already very tightly watched. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps