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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe I’m squeamish, but I would not want to eat the meat of an animal killed by a poisoned arrow.


7 posted on 01/18/2026 7:54:43 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: CatHerd
Maybe I’m squeamish, but I would not want to eat the meat of an animal killed by a poisoned arrow.

To this day, most human evolution occurs during tribal warfare. Poisoned arrows were certainly used on tribes of illegal immigrants trying to poach food benefits from other people's hunting grounds.

8 posted on 01/18/2026 8:09:40 PM PST by Reeses
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To: CatHerd

Its not really a poison so much as a drug.

From Wikipedia:

Buphedrone, also known as α-methylamino-butyrophenone (MABP), is a stimulant of the phenethylamine and cathinone chemical classes that was first synthesized in 1928. It is a synthetic analogue of cathinone, a stimulant naturally occurring in the khat plant. Like many other synthetic cathinones (e.g. mephedrone), it is also found in so called “legal highs” (sometimes also called “bath salts”), a class of designer drugs used to bypass legal restrictions.

Africans still chew on khat stems to get high.


9 posted on 01/18/2026 8:27:35 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (ICE, ICE Baby!)
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To: CatHerd

Many toxins that affect the nervous system if injected into the circulatory system are harmless if ingested into the digestive system, and most are readily digested. OTOH, most digestible substances injected into one’s blood are no good. Inject a pint of milk into your blood and you likely won’t survive it.


12 posted on 01/18/2026 9:19:34 PM PST by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: CatHerd

Unless the meat was cooked well done.


15 posted on 01/18/2026 9:32:35 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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