Confidently incorrect I see. How many people died from tomatoes / peppers since written history began? I’m guessing approximately zero.
“Theoretically, one could eat enough really hot chiles to kill you,” he says. “A research study in 1980 calculated that three pounds of extreme chilies in powder form — of something like the Bhut Jolokia — eaten all at once could kill a 150-pound person.”
So yeah probably the same number of people who died of a weed overdose. Another thing that is technically possible.