Botanical Wednesday: High times

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   Glen Davidson

   13 June 2012 at 9:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Sniffing out the secrets of coca, are they?

   Yes, we’re all excited, hardly able to sit still….

   Glen Davidson

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   F

   14 June 2012 at 2:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I wonder if they could come up with a sort of general anaesthetic/analgesic from this as an alternative à la methadone, and/or, like methadone, be a withdrawal/maintenance treatment.

   ↑ I managed to get three whacks in that sentence, and now it looks like an URL.

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   madtom1999

   14 June 2012 at 2:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Why is it that the greatest drug creations are almost as good as natures originals but … patentable?

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   jonjermey

   14 June 2012 at 2:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Actually that’s ‘minuscule’, as in ‘minus’.

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   iknklast

   14 June 2012 at 8:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   A minuscule part of the plant’s defense? Cue in the people screaming about wasted research money!

   My mother spent hours railing about studies of fruit fly DNA – why are we spending money on fruit flies? No amount of explanation about the importance of this research would convince her.

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   ironflange

   14 June 2012 at 10:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Aw, give the poor guy a break on “miniscule,” he’s a biologist, not a linguist. What’s more, my spell checker didn’t flag it here.