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A team of biologists in Australia has developed a scanning device to accurately detect exactly how potent a cannabis plant is, well before it's harvested. And no, it's not for selecting the choicest buds to get blasted with.

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Send me some samples and I'll tell you

[–] _skj@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Right? I'm about 10 minutes slower than the machine, but I'm happy to donate my services for free.

[–] ICCrawler@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There is the purpose a tool was meant for, and then there is the purpose people will actually use the tool for.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago

Kitchen scales measuring accuracy and to a hundredth of a gram for instance.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I don't understand the question.

[–] Alpacalypse@crazypeople.online 2 points 14 hours ago

I too am confused....

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's because you smoked too much weed

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

That's because you smoked too much weed

I was mocking the question for being useless, like trying to determine if you have too much chocolate or too much bacon.

The fact that I was high as balls when I wrote the comment is coincidental.