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Scientists made yeast brew THC and CBD

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Cultivating cannabis requires vast amounts of water and greenhouse space, so scientists figured out how to brew it instead. By editing the genetic pathways of standard baker's yeast, they created a microbe that consumes sugar and casually secretes pure THC and CBD. It is a wildly complex biological hack designed to mass-produce recreational compounds entirely without the actual weed.

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