Reply #39: You can "dispute" it if you like, but it would be helpful to provide backup. I have, you have not.

[troubleinwinter]

Canada, Iraq, U.K. and the U.S. seem to have viewed it as a practical weapon. (see post #31).

"Ricin has been developed as a weapon for the best part of 100 years."

It was one of the excuses used for attacking Iraq.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses the U.N. Security Council- Feb. 2003

"We know from Iraq's past admissions that it has successfully weaponized not only anthrax, but also other biological agents, including botulinum toxin, aflatoxin and ricin.

The network is teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other poisons. Let me remind you how ricin works. Less than a pinch--image a pinch of salt--less than a pinch of ricin, eating just this amount in your food, would cause shock followed by circulatory failure. Death comes within 72 hours and there is no antidote, there is no cure. It is fatal."