THC created in the laboratory with yeast
The cannabis plant has a rival, as a group of researchers from the Technical University of Dortmund have managed to create THC (the psychoactive component of cannabis) from a certain type of yeast in the laboratory.
Tetrahydrocannabinol is the component used in all cannabis-derived drugs, although this component can now be replaced by THC produced in the laboratory to be specifically targeted at certain treatments.
Although there are doubts about the actual validity of certain medicinal applications of cannabis, these types of methods would allow for more separate access to the constituents of marijuana and would provide more precise answers in treatment.
The intention has been to propose an alternative so that the medicinal application of cannabis does not also lead to an uncontrolled increase in its cultivation, although the production of the component that has been created from yeasts is very small.
However, the current THC production level achieved by the cannabis plant is very high (in some varieties exceeding 301% THC), and as Dr. Jonathan Page of the University of British Columbia stated, “we currently have a plant that is essentially the Ferrari of the plant world when it comes to producing the chemical components we are interested in. Cannabis will be hard to beat.”.
Fountain: The New York Times