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Re:Psilocybin Produced in Yeast by taneq on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:56AM (#22922249)
I'd love to hear more about this cheap, efficient extraction of psilocybin from mushrooms.
Re:Psilocybin Produced in Yeast by cuspycode on Monday April 20, 2020 @12:55PM (#22925735)
I'd love to hear someone actually quoting dollars per milligram, and do an actual cost-benefit comparison between the mushroom production pathway and this novel yeast pathway. You can produce mushroom juice in a H20 solution cheaply at home for about $0.1 per 10mg of psilocybin. If you want pure psilocybin, it needs to be extracted from such a solution, but I am sure some similar extraction is needed for yeast-produced psilocybin as well. Obtaining psilocybin from yeast sounds like a great technological breakthrough, but I'm highly skeptical of economic arguments where no actual numbers are presented.