Has anybodie done it yet?
I would be interested only in expert opinions.
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Youâll have better luck making heroin
Ketchup?
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Once upon a time (mid â90âs), moving the required genes for cannabinoid synthesis into tomato was suggested by a classmateâŚ.
Tomato is almost as easy as tobacco to transform, and has
Glandular trichomes in abundance
It was more than a decade before the required sequences were published.
âŚwithout those sequences, the best approach seemed to be protoplast fusion.
Never considered isolating tomato trichomesâŚ
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To what end?
Could be a fun experiment to use in the kitchen. Maybe to sprinkle onto a dish or use in a cocktail? I personally love the smell of tomato plants, and I feel like that herbaceous scent could add some zhuzh.
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I like the smell, but it is difficult to preserve.
For food
Iâm thinking maybe some agitation of the stalks with dry ice? Once the dry ice sublimates you could collect the resulting plant matter.
I can tell you for certain, after pruning a few hundred tomato plants, your hands are covered in a black goo very reminiscent of rolling some charas hash. Like thick enough to scrape off and ball up easily. Kinda fun washing it off, watching the black tar turn the water green!
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Interesting observation @BigM
Seems to be that the content is water soluble
And chlorophyll rich
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Itâs yellow when it comes off my hands. My fingernails are permanently grubby this time of year.
Tomatoes are in the nightshade family. The leaves are mildly poisonous. Idk if the trichromes are or not.
Jimson Weed, which I have thankfully never consumed, is also a nightshade. The seeds are like the worst acid trip of your life and last for days. Itâs the only drug I know of with a 0% approval rating. True story, in the mid 1800s there was a family who bought tomatoes from a farmer that did what they thought was poison them. They were all ok eventually. The story was published and was part of the anti tomato hysteria of the time when people thought the whole plant was poisonous. It was never reported; this is my own theory, but I think the farmer was grafting his plants to jimson weed. It works really well, but if you let anything below the graft line grow out and flower, your tomatoes will give you the worst acid trip of your life.
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This is a horrible idea:
I mean you can get thc from yeast (THC production by yeast - Wikipedia). I donât see why this wouldnât be a fun project.
Bruh just look at the post above you
Hops plant insteadt of making beerâŚlupulin glands are very very similar, even same family I think
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For many years already the ability to bioengineer different crops into individually targeted Cancer drugs has existed⌠But itâs a very dangerous game to play with nature. If for any reason at all a genetically engineered crop pollinates / interacts with crops in the food chain it could cause catastrophic results!!!
Also just recently the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel published a paper describing growing psychedelics in the same way. Imagine growing in then rolling your own tobacco/dmt cigarettes⌠And now imagine someone going around pollinating a bunch of tobacco fields everywhere around the world with that⌠Philip Morris will hate you⌠But then again maybe they wonât 
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Fair point.
However, if youâre adding genes, then knocking others out, either in addition to or, as part of your insertion strategy shouldnât add a whole lot of overhead.
Simply knock out an appropriate step in tomatine biosynthesisâŚ
Edit: re-read your response in context of OPâs actual question. Agree with you 
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