To put it in perspective, a jalapeno pepper is between 5,000 and 8,000 Scoville Units.
Another way to look at it that the Carolina Reaper is nearly as strong as pepper spray used by police.
Currie hopes to turn his skill for growing peppers into lucrative business in the growing hot pepper market.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans are eating 8 percent more hot peppers than they were five years ago.
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