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Adults 21 and over in California may now possess up to one ounce of dried marijuana or eight ounces of concentrated cannabis and can grow up to six marijuana plants for personal use subject to certain restrictions. [22] It is still illegal to sell or possess marijuana with intent to sell without both a state and local license. [23]
Ricin (/ ˈ r aɪ s ɪ n / RY-sin) is a lectin (a carbohydrate-binding protein) and a highly potent toxin produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis.The median lethal dose (LD 50) of ricin for mice is around 22 micrograms per kilogram of body weight via intraperitoneal injection.
Peter Hermann Stillmark (22 July 1860, Penza, Russian Empire – 23 June 1923, Pärnu, Estonia) was a Baltic-German microbiologist.. In 1888 at the University in Dorpat, now Tartu in Estonia under Professor Rudolf Kobert's supervision, he completed his doctoral thesis Über Ricin, ein giftiges Ferment aus den Samen von Ricinus comm. L. und einigen anderen Euphorbiaceen, which is a description ...
An American anti-government group headquartered in Minneapolis known as the Minnesota Patriot's Council mail-ordered castor beans and managed to extract about 0.7 grams of 5% ricin, despite having no specific expertise in biological warfare. [17] [18] The group planned to use the ricin to assassinate a deputy U.S. marshal and a local sheriff. [18]
A Marine Corps veteran who authorities said tried to fake his own death after a falling out with a Virginia-based militia group pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegal possession of ricin, a ...
The Biden administration took a critical step in reclassifying marijuana as a lower-risk drug, the president announced Thursday, inching closer to removing it from a federal category that ...
It can serve as a biomarker of ricin poisoning. [3] [4] It was first isolated from the castor seeds by Tuson in 1864. [5] [6] Ricinine has insecticidal effects. [7] It sublimes between 170 and 180 °C at 20 mmHg. It does not form salts, and is precipitated in iodine or mercuric chloride solutions, but not in Mayer's reagent. [5]
The California End of Life Option Act was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on October 5, 2015, with Brown taking the unusual step of releasing a personal statement in which he indicated his dilemma regarding the consideration of the ethical issues involved and that he felt unable to deny the right of choice to others. [2] [12]