At 10:48 PM 4/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:

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"Olsen would face life in prison if convicted of the federal charge of possession of a biological agent or toxin for use as a weapon. "

Holy shit -- a cigarette falls under that classification. There's enough nicotine in one to kill anyone if simply extracted.

Good observation. And unlike ricin, there are good reasons for making a tobacco extract --garden use. (A few pro gardeners a year die from commercial nicotine-based pesticides, I've read. A drop'll do ya.) Keep your nic setup with your gardening stuff, just like you keep your pipes and endcaps with your plumbing supplies, your chlorine generators with your pool supplies, your AN with your other fertilizers, you get the picture. However ricin takes a day or so, whereas nic is fairly immediate. Rather interesting that both Olsen's wife and jilted mistress both deny any plans. Though Agilent spying on his work-browsing and turning him in to Feds is perhaps more interesting. Lots of bored prosecutors needing slow deepfrying, like that Eastern Missouri inbreed Raymond W. Gruender (who charged Paypal with terrorism), trying to build his career perhaps because his sister won't fuck him any more. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110103,00.asp