> > Have you considered the liability issues of having such a > > plant in you > > garden where children can get hold of it? > > What's the "big deal"? > > 1 - Hemlock isn't illegal > > 2 - Not all variaties are toxic > > 3 - you have to distill or chew on a heck of a lot of it to > kill yourself. You'd get one heck of a stomach ache long > before you were able to send yourself to the hereafter. > > I guess growing up outside of city limits in the woods gives > me a different perspective.. hemlock is just another tree in > the woods, admittedly with a rather colorful mention in > philisophical history.
(of course, I realize that poison hemlock isn't the same as the hemlock tree.. I meant that growing up I wondered why everyone thought that tree in the backyard could kill people ;D) -j-
