30 May 2010

pharmacobotany

We thank those Farmers who have come before us
To domesticate and optimize
Maize, potato, cannabis, cows, pigs, cats.

Seeds seem to predominate on the lower part of the colas. No doubt an artifact
of my and the genome's timing, and its environment.

Yes, I have a male. I am only learning to clone. I appreciate what sex gives the genome, and I want a backyard & me adapted landrace.

Getting into plant signalling systems. Amusing, the chemical the plant uses to indicate "I'm sick" is also useful to humans in suppressing fever ---salicylic acid is a messenger. That's why it was found in willow by the Greeks.

Add an acetyl group, it works better, like heroin is better than morphine. But opiates are stupid.