[martin_fierro]

Through his lawyer, Olsen has said he made the deadly toxin from the castor bean plant as a Boy Scout project.

Ricin is one of the most poisonous naturally occuring substances known.

A Boy Scout project. Riiiiiiiight.

[RLK]

I thought ricen was a type of mold. I know the soviets used it in at least one assassination. It produces flu-like symptoms in four days followed by death.