Johnny Appleseed apples were used more for hard cider.

Apple seeds contain a small amount of cyanide as defense, and each one is genetically different.

Apples were main source of sweetness for Americans.

The more perfect the symmetry in a flower (or human), the healthier and sweeter it will be.

The Dutch had a brief tulip craze in the 1600s similar to the Internet bubble; faded quickly.

Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus represent the opposing yet attracting nature of tulip; order versus chaos.

The federal crackdown on marijuana pushed the growers indoors, which helped unlock the drug’s potential.

Plato and other Enlightened people were possible high when they wrote about their stuff?

Cannabis received an “otherness” stigma that caused the ill will, which medicine slowly is trying to “pharmaceuticalize”

His theory: the tree in Eden represented nature’s real power over humans that God acknowledged but ruled over.

Potatoes brought to Europe from the New World and caught on among the Irish poor because of its easiness and salubrity.

Potato threatened human independence from nature.

Shift to biotech may lead to more bio rather than chemical pollution.