You can make ricin at home from castor oil (not that I’m advocating such a practice) so as poisons you can threaten people with go, it’s a pretty realistic one.
Well know the Bush Administration has decided to take this threat seriously when they invade a totally unrelated country in the opening salvo in The War On Possibly-Self-Hating-Gay Terror.
We should start a pool on who the lucky country will be. Dibs on Venezuela!
No, you can’t.
Q.E.D., SHHHHHHH! We want the crackpots to think that they can! That way when one of them does try to take out the patrons of a gay bar, all that happens is a really thorough bowel movement.
Sorry… castor beans, not oil.
Beans, yes. But even then, the purification process is beyond what the average kitchen chemist is capable of, websites claiming otherwise notwithstanding. Plus, you’d need a metric shitload (yes, that’s the exact quantity) of beans to extract 67 grams of the stuff.
The CDC seems to think a mouthful of castor beans contain a harmful quantity of the stuff. Anyway, it’s not a stretch to think he’s got 67 grams of mashed and partially processed castor beans in a jar, which would be enough to kill a couple of people, I imagine.
He may have 67 grams of castor beans, but my understanding is that to extract 67 grams of ricin would require approximately a metric shitload of beans.
A quick google check suggests that 3%-5% (various sources) of the mass of a dried castor bean is ricin which means that this fellow would need to process 1.34-2.21 kilos of castor beans to get the 67 grams. This is providing that the internet can be trusted on this subject, which as Q.E.D. has pointed out is unlikely.
More googleing (with an assist from Captain_C) suggests that a single castor bean seed has about .000125 grams of ricin which means that it would require 536,000 seeds to acquire the 67 grams of the poison (if all my math and sources are correct).
So 1 metric shitload = 536,000
So, where do we sign up for the solidarity pub crawl?
“If you have abandon your beverage” is the new All Your Base
I accidentally your drink. Sorry.
Just show up at C. C. Attle’s on Friday at 7 pm 
Latest mainstream news article. There’s really no further details available yet.
'Salright. I accidentally your car. Oops.
What is that imperial?
A buttload.
Ever since Tom Cruise had that lab accident these things have been surfacing everywhere.
Thanks for bringing that to my atttention.
Can you suggest one?
2.2 assloads.
I would suggest U.N.C.L.E. Or possibly CONTROL.
If neither of them are available, the X-Men.