Hahaha hey you know, there might be some ultra-fucking-cool psychedelic which could one day be synthed from Boomslang venom, or some shit!
My dad worked weekends at a snake park in Africa when I was a kid. Part of his "show" was to milk various snakes for an audience, mainly cobra & puff-adder coz they caused they most fatalities & the antivenin for those two was the most in demand. The venom was sent to South Africa to be processsed into anti-venin & distributed to hospitals & I'm sure it still is. Once the snakes had been milked the venom would coagulate at the bottom of a jar, & be scraped out into a much bigger jar once it had fully crystalised. I used to pretty much run about this place like I owned it & I knew the Latin name of every snake in the place including many that weren't African, such as the Rattler that the parks yank owner had gotten from the states. I could get round the back where there's huge pens of rats & mice, rabbits, tons of insects & frogs (you know what for!) & there were these shelves, with huge sweetie jars full of various coloured rocks of crystals, depending on the species. Some were dark, almost like shattered black glass, others crystal clear, some yellow, some foggy, creamy etc etc HUGE fucking jars of DEADLY, DEADLY poisons, literally enough to kill thousands & thousands of people, each jar. It was said that one crystal of the puff adder venom was enough to kill a hundred people. Can you imagine how many you could kill with a huge sweetie jar of crystals!?!
The anti-venin is just as deadly as the venom itself. If you are bitten but not injected (a choice poisonous snakes can make) & then administer the anti-venin, it'll kill ya. My dad was once scratched on the thumb by a puff adder while milking it, the scratch was too small to see... so he chose to forego the anti-venin. He nearly lost the whole arm!
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holy shit lol... FUCK SNAKES!