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To: knighthawk

Is 800 beans enough to do what they claim with?

I seem to recall that while ricin is a tremendously strong poison, that it takes a lot of castor beans to derive any.


20 posted on 03/17/2021 12:56:18 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

One bean can kill you but unless it is mashed up the seed coat might not break down in the gut enough for the toxin to be released.


21 posted on 08/24/2023 4:04:35 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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