Lost: Kintaro Edition, Episode One

[Dark_Me]

I'm glad I didn't try it then.

By the way, you should (obviously) stay clear of the following; horse chessnut, laburnum, deadly nightshade and even elderberry, just because you can eat the berries is doesn't mean you can smoke the leaves as all other parts of the plant are poisonous. I don't know how many other poisonous plants there are that grow where I live I suppose there are lots, the moral of the story is if you don't know what it is then don't use it.

Having just said that I suppose you have to be careful when you're buying drugs for exactly the same reason.

Deadly Nightshade? That's highly poisonous. Hence the deadly part. Or is it a typo? You shouldn't smoke anything you don't know for sure is safe. There is no exception to this rule, smoking stuff is one way to very quickly absorb strong doses into your bloodstream. Read: It can kill you faster.

[Aloone_Jonez]

All parts of the deadly nightshade plant are highly toxic and all of the other plants I've mentioned are poisonious too. Elderberry is differant, it has edible berries but the rest of the plant is poisonous, this is a similar story with potato too you can eat the tuber but not any other part of the plant.

[worker201]

A long time ago, the potato and the tomato were both poisonous.  But South American native farmers cross-bred them into the edible veggies we know today.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

A long time ago, the potato and the tomato were both poisonous. But South American native farmers cross-bred them into the edible veggies we know today.

The skin of the potato is still poisonous to some degree ... potatoes are part of the deadly nightshade family. They defend themselves against ravaging bugs by producing a toxic chemical called solanine.

[Aloone_Jonez]

Tomatoes are part of the nightshade familly too. I delieve that bannanas were origionally toxic but a mutation occurred resulting in an edible species but this is currently under threat because it is unfertile and can only propagated by suckers which is asexual reroduction so it can't evolve to become disease resistant and as a result the edible bananna as we know it is slowly edging towards extinction.

[worker201]

The skin of the potato is still poisonous to some degree ... potatoes are part of the deadly nightshade family. They defend themselves against ravaging bugs by producing a toxic chemical called solanine.

After writing a grueling 25-page paper on plant toxins in college, it seemed clear to me that plant toxins are simply normal by-products of the particular plant's metabolism.  While it may appear that the plant produces poison to protect itself, it just produces it naturally, and the overall effect is protection.  For example, let's assume that the nightshade family was not always poisonous to certain bugs.  But then one plant was mutated and began to produce sickness in the bugs.  This plant would have survived, and the others would have died off.  So the plants don't actually defend themselves - that implies intelligence and proactivity, which plants don't have a lot of.  They just get lucky from time to time.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Ahhh ... we are learning so much today, isn't it fun ?

The luckyness of plants = evolution by natural selection

[Kintaro]

Toxic dont mean high niggers

[Annorax]

Toxic dont mean high niggers

This is your brain on drugs...

[Jack2000]

Apple leaves rock!
i dunno if they get you high but you can mix them with weed
to ... um ... like... make it more lite




(how do you say the word ... when you mix two things to make it weaker ??)

[Lead Head]

dilute?

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Apple leaves rock!
i dunno if they get you high but you can mix them with weed
to ... um ... like... make it more lite




(how do you say the word ... when you mix two things to make it weaker ??)

Deja vu ??? I think so ...