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pain plant (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well, given that it's supposed to be toxic rather than just painful, I'd say we're resistant in that it takes a high dose to kill us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

i wouldn't really count body mass as resistence, by that measure every single mammal bar perhaps the field mouse is resistant to basically every toxin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You'd have to eat a lot of pure cap to kill you. Oral LD50 in mice is 47.2 mg/kg (source). For an 80 kg person, that's 3780 mg of pure cap. 1000mg of pure cap dropped into a pot of chili would be inedibly hot even to the most hardcore spicy food fan.