I have been doing alot of research on rear fanged coloubrids, which from my understanding are all considered venomous. They only thing is they have under developed delivery systems or lack the quantity of venom to harm a human. This is not the case for all, some can be quite deadly. I personally look at it this way, it is a venomous animal, treat it as one. Last thing we need is someone in the hospital because they thought their snake was "harmless". But again, thats me.