[82990] in Cypherpunks
Re: Recreational pharmaceuticals by genetic engineering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Thu Jul 10 16:18:21 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 97 02:06:18 EDT
In-Reply-To: <v03102807afea1f8f0451@[10.0.2.15]>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
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.
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<a href="mailto:dlv@bwalk.dm.com">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
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