Is there a way of extracting ricin (alkaliod)
from the caster oil seed pods?

- witout using an alcohol derivitive.

Who you trying to poison?
To make it:

1. Go to a store that sells castor beans ( like for castor oil )
2. put about 2 ounces of water into a GLASS jar and add some LYE
from the grocery store to it ( about a teaspoon full )
3. wait for the lye/water mixture to cool
4. plop one or 2 ounces of the beans into the liquid
5. soak them for one hour
6. pour out the liquid and DON'T TOUCH IT! it is lye and will
burn your skin off!
7. get the beans and rinse them
8. take the outside off the beans very carefully using your
finger nail or something
9. put the insides of the beans into a blender ( i use a coffee
grinder ) with four ounces of acetone for every one of the
beans
10. blend until it looks like milk
11. put them in a glass jar for three days with the lid closed
tightly
12. at the end of three days shake it up really good and pour it
into a coffee filter
13. when the dripping stops pick up the filter and squeeze the
acetone out of it
14. spread the filter out on a pan covered with newspaper and let
it dry
15. when it is dry! if you can compress it and it stays in that
shape ( i.e. squeeze it in your hand ) then put it back into
a DIFFERENT CLEAN jar with 4 more ounces of acetone for 1 day
if you did: repeat steps 12-24

The powder you have made is tasteless and odorless. It can be
sprinkled into soup or placed in a drink or inhaled. It takes
about 3-4 days to act and when it does the guy will be dead
within a week. The death is slow and painful as this poison
attacks the blood and internal organs starting with the digestive
tract. The cure is rare and expensive and the poison is almost
impossible to detect.

you got the prices for the cure and beans? WHAT IS THE LD50 FOR YOUR METHOD RAVERDUDE?

this isn't my method, I got it when I searched for ricin on the totse search engine but its pretty much the same as other extraction methods. I too would like to know the LD50. I don't know prices my neighbor grows it in his back yard for shade so if I wanted some I would just go and clip a few seed pods off of it.

I did some searching and found this for pure ricin,

LD50 of approx
20 microgrammes per kilo, ie about 1 mg per adult human

1 mg= sweet