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>
>An old professor of
>mine reminded all of us that drugs are poisons, the key to their use is to
>look at the benefits vs the consequences.
>

All substances are poisons depending on use/exposure, even honey!
 Everything is made from "chemicals" and I agree that this disticntion
between synthetic vs "natural" is silly.  Substances should be evaluated
on their own merit - not their origin (unless their
origin/manufacture/harvest is unethical - another topic all together).

I also find the justification that just because you can find substnaces
in a hive, you can feel free to adminsitered hundreds to thousands times
the amount for a treatment and call it "natural" is also nothing more
than an excercise in semantics.  (not to pick on formic acid - while I
do not use it I am not necesarily againt the stuff - I have not
evaluated the information for my self for this application)  Look hard
enough, and with a sensitive enough detector you might find almost
anything in a hive - doesn't mean you necessarily want to jack up the
amount of some of these materials.  Doesn't mean you won't want to, but
its presence there does not automatically mean that the stuff is benign
and OK to use wholesale.  Each product, synthetic or "natural", should
be evaluated on its own merits.

Keith "name for me a single substance that is, unnatural, i.e defies a
natural law" Benson

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