Fake marijuana likely tainted with rat poison kills 3, sickens 100

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What exactly would happen to a human if they ate a lethal dose of rat poison? I know, they'd die, but why/how? The same way the rat does? For the same reasons?

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Fake pot likely tainted with rat poison kills 3, sickens 100