> > 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-

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