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What about ricin? I thought that it was relatively easy to source from castor beans.
by Teever 4y ago
What about ricin? I thought that it was relatively easy to source from castor beans.
- umeshunni 4y agoI too watched Breaking Bad...
- heavyset_go 4y agoYou need to eat a lot of it. The only reason anyone even sees media about ricin is because it really isn't as potent as it's portrayed, and it stops copycats from using what they see on TV to kill a lot of people.
- hilbert42 4y agoWhen I was a kid my mother would give me a tablespoon of foul-tasting castor oil as a laxative. Since learning about the ricin connection it's always been a source of bemusement whenever I think about it. Edit: presumably by 'a lot' you mean milligrams (by ingestion) and not micrograms. From my understanding eating 100mg would be a certain death sentence.