Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 19:03:21 -0700, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Lethal doses of pure capsaicin that I've read about are about 47 mg per
>>> kg of the victim.
>> So we're talking like a half-teaspoon of capsaicin here?  That would
>> indeed be a scary amount.
> 
> Per KG of weight for the "victim" - so if you weigh 150 KG, that would be 
> a pretty significant amount.

I must have messed up a unit conversion somewhere then, since I 
definitely don't weigh 150kg.

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