Scientists made yeast brew THC and CBD
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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