[Sandylapper]

I'm probably just really overreaching here, AAID, about the theobromine, but wonder if it could be available in say a powder/liquid form, and put in a nice hot cup of chocolate before bedtime. Because theobromine is derived from cacoa beans, maybe the chocolate flavor would not be altered, and one might drink a hot cup of cocoa without noticing a thing. Now, it might not kill, but might it render a victim incapacitated and unable to defend oneself? With SP's "fertilizer" background, I would imagine that he would have knowledge of something like theobromine, and Laci might have been familiar with something like cocoa mulch if she liked to garden, such that theobromine around the house might not be unusual. Think I've heard Laci had a "green thumb".

I live in the south, and people do prune and give their plants/shrubs nourishment in the fall of the year. I really don't know about that specific area around Modesta, CA.

[An American In Dairyland]

>>I'm probably just really overreaching here, AAID, about the theobromine, but wonder if it could be available in say a powder/liquid form, and put in a nice hot cup of chocolate before bedtime. Because theobromine is derived from cacoa beans, maybe the chocolate flavor would not be altered, and one might drink a hot cup of cocoa without noticing a thing. Now, it might not kill, but might it render a victim incapacitated and unable to defend oneself<<

Theobromine is *already* in chocolate or anything derived from cocoa beans. It is naturally occurring in these things much like caffeine is.

Like caffeine, theobromine is a somewhat *inert* ingredient. It is a mild diuertic (makes a person pee) and a mild stimulant. Caffeine does the same things. That's pretty much all theobromine does to people.

Theobromine has no ability to knock a person out or disable them. In fact, as a stimulant (even though mild) it does the opposite--keeps a person awake and slightly agitated.