Blame Canada?

Topher, you need to move to Texas. You can eat your fill of fritopie & watch live sixman.

So what kind of pepper do they use in pepper spray?

That's a great Q!

I've seen the bad guys on
COPS
get sprayed and keep right on comin'.
Obviously not habenero
or higher.
Perhaps the spray should be measured in scofield(sp?)
units also?

I've also seen my mentor,
Dog the bounty hunter,
get caught in his own spray drift.
So,
there's that.

The vast majority of pepper spray and suicide sauces at chicken wing restaurants are derived from pure capsicum extract. Even the hottest peppers in the world like the Trinidad Scorpion are not hot enough for pepper spray or people who love super hot sauces on their wings.

Suicide sauces are for people with less sanity than anyone is this group...

The active ingredient in pepper spray is capsaicin, which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus, including chilis. Extraction of oleoresin capsicum from peppers involves finely ground capsicum, from which capsaicin is extracted in an organic solvent such as ethanol. The solvent is then evaporated, and the remaining waxlike resin is the oleoresin capsicum. An emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend the OC in water, and pressurized to make it aerosol in pepper spray. The high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method is used to measure the amount of capsaicin and major capsaicinoids within pepper sprays.
A synthetic analogue of capsaicin, pelargonic acid vanillylamide (desmethyldihydrocapsaicin), is used in another version of pepper spray known as PAVA spray which is used in the United Kingdom. Another synthetic counterpart of pepper spray, pelargonic acid morpholide, was developed and is widely used in Russia. Its effectiveness compared to natural pepper spray is unclear.

Google makes Smokey seem smart.

wikipedia makes me even smarter ;-)

I do like a good hoodie

I'm scared. Granger threatened to restore my sanity...

How exactly does one go about getting peppers from Bhutan, or any of the other varieties that you listed? My gardens are of a pepper majority and I'm always looking to try new peppers.

Topher will send seed pods to folks that will say, in writing, that Canada is the greatest country in the world.

What kind of peppers do you have?
All you need to do is ask & topher will probably send you some seeds.

Already PM'ed him. :)