Life Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are increasingly in demand for research and medical uses Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email A tobacco plant has been modified to produce five psychedelic drugs Aharoni lab, Weizmann Institute if Science Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to produce five powerful psychedelic compounds normally found in other plants, fungi and animals in a single crop. They argue that using plants to manufacture the drugs would be simpler and more sustainable than existing processes, making research into therapeutic uses and production of future medicines easier. Asaph Aharoni at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and his colleagues modified  Nicotiana benthamiana plants using a technique called agroinfiltration, which involves using a bacterium to introduce genes from other organisms into a plant.…