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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]
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.
After LSD became illegal, first in California in 1966, the use of blotter paper as a medium became more common. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the United States Supreme Court case Chapman v. United States , the court found that Congress had intended to include the weight of the carrier medium for LSD in its sentencing guidelines, regardless of whether it was ...
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 ...
Federal employee pleads guilty to ricin possession, the US far-right roiled by Telegram founder's arrest and Trump boosts QAnon: The week in extremism
"Ricin is not infectious between people and the risk to the wider public based on the information available has always been low," Renu Bindra from the UK Health Security Agency (HSA) told reporters.
Effective January 1, 2004, California bill AB846 bans smoking within 20 feet (6.1 m) of the entrance or operable window of a public building ("public building" means a building owned and occupied, or leased and occupied, by the state, a county, a city, a city and county, or a California Community College district.)
In 2003, a package and letter sealed in a "ricin-contaminated" envelope was intercepted in Greenville, South Carolina, at a United States Postal Service processing center. [16] Ricin was detected in the mail at the White House in Washington, D.C., in November 2003. The letter containing it was intercepted at a mail handling facility off the ...