Science Says You Can Make Morphine And Heroin With A Home Brewing Machine

Right now, you’d need a little help from someone with experience in synthetic biology, but scientists believe it may someday be really easy to create your own morphine and even heroin with nothing more than a home brewing machine.

According to Wired, all it would take is for someone to produce a strain of the “right kind of yeast,” and anyone with basic knowledge of brewing beer would be able to ferment it into morphine.

Mashable reported that John Dueber from the University of California, Berkeley and Vincent Martin of Concordia University in Montreal were able to genetically modify yeast and turned it into morphine.

If regular people were able to get their hands on this strain of yeast, it would open up the possibility of people easily making it on their own.

Of course, morphine is known to be addictive when taken over a long period of time, so while Deuber and Martin genetic prowess could lay the foundation for anti-cancer therapeutics, antibiotics, and other narcotics, it can also make morphine and heroin a lot more accessible to drug fiends.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

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