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[deleted] t1_iy0frph wrote

Reply to comment by TroutComplex in ‘Natural’ baby product company recalls toddler cups due to lead poisoning hazard by The_White_Light

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SlicerStopSlicing t1_iy0j6dg wrote

Cobra venom and tetrodotoxin.

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CodsWhallop t1_iy0llt4 wrote

Tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine.

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a_lonely_trash_bag t1_iy0mo3q wrote

Anthrax

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mitkase t1_iy34snt wrote

That sounded more like QOTSA than Anthrax, but I could be wrong.

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big_sugi t1_iy1vg39 wrote

Cocaine is heavily processed; it’s not all natural. But the other two are just as God made them, so smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em, I guess.

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os101so t1_iy5jrt7 wrote

Cocaine is actually supernatural.

The leaves are natural but the refined product is fucking super.

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ShadowDragon8685 t1_iy0obsd wrote

One of those is not like the others. It is medically impossible to overdose on one of them.

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Avery_Thorn t1_iy0teft wrote

There are a few people who are allergic (as in anaphylactic shock deadly allergic) to it though… It is fairly rare but not unheard of.

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demonzanth t1_iy150rz wrote

Some people are allergic to protein. As in, deadly allergic. To meat.

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big_sugi t1_iy1w0ne wrote

The Lone Star tick can create allergies to nonprimate mammalian meat and leather. So i guess monkey stew and roast Long pig are still on the menu?

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Queen_Cheetah t1_iy27bos wrote

Wait, non-primate mammalian meat?! Who the heck figured that out, how, and WHY?!

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big_sugi t1_iy281r2 wrote

Beats me; I thought it was just beef and bovine leather. But Wikipedia says what I repeated.

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ShadowDragon8685 t1_iy1sa4c wrote

This is true, but we don't classify peanuts and tree nuts as, let me check here, a Schedule 1 drug, which, let me check the DEA here...

> has a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.

All of which statements are either blatantly false in the absurd, I mean "two plus three equals thirteen, also the sky is neon-green and water is the driest substance known to mankind" false, or are misleading in that the exact same statement applies to alcohol and tobacco.

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PurifyZ t1_iy1fbq6 wrote

I prefer toad venom thank u very much! If it's good enough for Mike Tyson, then it's good enough for me 😂

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Ready_Bandicoot1567 t1_iy4v31w wrote

tetrodotoxin scares the crap out of me. Ive been catching/handling/releasing california newts in a local pond for years (gently, with clean wet hands). One day I looked them up, turns out they are LOADED with tetrodotoxin due to an evolutionary arms race with a type of garter snake that eats them.

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SlicerStopSlicing t1_iy50p7u wrote

I had no idea they were in newts. Was this a North American species?

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Ready_Bandicoot1567 t1_iy64j9o wrote

Taricha torosa, California newt. Other species of Taricha also have tetrodotoxin. As far as I know their range is restricted to the pacific northwest.

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os101so t1_iy5jjin wrote

Iocaine powder, however, is an unnatural poison that you cannot smell nor taste.

Shall we see who is right, and who is dead? Let the game begin

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zerostar83 t1_iy4ykzo wrote

Which is also why it's advertised and sold as children's medicine under the alternative medicine known as homeopathy.

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