Talk:A Much Needed Talk/@comment-24573226-20170202213702/@comment-4010415-20170202231917

People use "poison" and "venom" differently to easily denote the dangers of different toxins. You can drink snake venom and be perfectly fine as long as you don't have any open wounds in your mouth, throat, or stomach. Therefore, snake venom is just venom, as ingesting it will not make you sick like ingesting a poison would. You can eat a live scorpion, swallow its venom, and be perfectly fine, so scorpion venom is not poison.