>Maybe I can try one out on my school's football field? No malicious intent,

I blew up a bag of Oxygen/Acetylene on my school's football field. No malicious intent, can you think of a safer place to do it? I couldn't.

>Or perhaps I could study the inhalant properties of anthrax powder at my desk at work,

That's not even close to the same thing, but perhaps you should.