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To: Snowshoe who wrote (61001)	3/14/2005 4:05:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<there are a LOT of dangerous plants around, and that we should be aware of it. > That's the line I push. ALL plants are toxic apart from those which bear fruit with the intention of it being eaten so the seeds are widely dispersed, along with a little pile of manure. Plants have been in chemical warfare for eons against insects and other beasts which want to eat them. Plants have developed all possible toxins to attack all possible systems. Which is why they are useful in chemotherapy. Some toxins will preferentially kill the cancer cells which are more vulnerable, while mostly leaving the other cells alive to carry on living after the cancer cells are all dead. The wacky idea that plants love us and we love plants is nuts [which are also nice to eat but heavily protected by woody material to prevent attack - macadamia nuts are very very tough to get into; coconuts aren't exactly easy either with their husks and hard shell]. Coffee, tea, heroin, marijuana, cocaine, tobacco, toadstools, daytura etc are all deliberately producing neurotoxins to poison anything which dares eat them. While humans play "let's poison our brains for fun", normal primates are unwise to do that as there are often predators hanging around looking for confused dinners. Judging from the number of people who die while neurotoxined, it works these days too. Mqurice