RCW 69.38.010: "Poison" defined.

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PDFRCW 69.38.010

"Poison" defined.

As used in this chapter "poison" means:

(1) Arsenic and its preparations;

(2) Cyanide and its preparations, including hydrocyanic acid;

(3) Strychnine; and

(4) Any other substance designated by the pharmacy quality assurance commission which, when introduced into the human body in quantities of sixty grains or less, causes violent sickness or death.

[ 2013 c 19 § 52; 1987 c 34 § 1.]