Word: toxication
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...along highways, canals and railroads, it kills vegetation that hides ambushers. Sprayed over forests, the chemicals cause from 40% to 75% defoliation within a month, exposing enemy strongholds and troop movements. And yet, say the scientists, the herbicides used in Viet Nam do not persist in the soil at toxic levels; new vegetation soon springs...
...widespread is the use of quick-freeze aerosol spray for freaking out? No one really knows-yet. Hippies and college students reportedly have turned to it as a legal turn-on (the labels on the cans read "harmless and non-toxic"). At Yale, a few students have been inhaling the gas since it was introduced last month by collegians returning from the West Coast. In Medford, at least 200 high school students were using it. Literally scared sick by the McCuan tragedy, scores of them fled to family doctors and hospitals, complaining of aches, stabbing chest pains and sleeplessness. Most...
...Unlike toxic insecticides, juvenile hormones will not harm plants or animals. Nor can insects develop a resistance to it since they need the hormone for early growth...
...carbon monoxide rapidly filled the cabin. Though the astronauts suffered burns, it was asphyxiation that killed them. So intense were the heat and smoke billowing from the cabin into the "white room" near the craft that rescuers were repeatedly driven back and their gas masks, designed to protect against toxic fumes rather than smoke, were quickly exhausted...
...instances marijuana has produced psychoses, as does LSD." This, I presume, is to suggest some similarity in such transient or toxic psychoses. I've seen no evidence for such. I know of two psychotic episodes following administration of marijuana, one excessive, taken orally, both lasting under 20 minutes, neither with any after effects. Such cases are so rare as to be almost negligible...