The National Park Service wants humans to stop licking this toad

[Martin Takamine]

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/06/1134...ervice-wants-humans-to-stop-licking-this-toad

 

[fpitas]

I'm not not licking toads!

/Homer Simpson

 

[tw 2022]

Those toads are toxic AF.... back in the day. ( 1960/70/80s) lots of dogs and cats died hereabouts from trying to carry them. .. It isn't a joke....

 

[Dunring]

South Park did an episode about this didn't they? People will lick, sniff, or smoke practically anything to get high. We used to just fill a watermelon with vodka and go to the beach the way nature intended...

 

[tw 2022]

South Park did an episode about this didn't they? People will lick, sniff, or smoke practically anything to get high. We used to just fill a watermelon with vodka and go to the beach the way nature intended...

tell me , how'd nature distill that vodka?..little help from a wanna be drunk somewhere?

 

[JayGilb]

How long before the DEA categorizes them as a schedule 1 drug ?

 

[OldHvyMec]

Of all the things on earth to lick and someone picks a TOAD. If I was a licker, TOADS would not be on the lick list. More like a kisser than licker when it comes to
toads or frogs. I'm not looking for Prince Charming so kissin' is out too. Frog legs are good eatin'!!

 

[JSmith]

This has been going on a very long time;

Licking Toads Leaves More Than a Bad Taste in the Mouth : Trends: It may indeed be a 'desperation high,' but licking a toad is the latest way to hallucinate.

Licking toads will not give you warts or produce a fairy prince, but it might get you high.

www.latimes.com

JAN. 31, 1990

Are there really hallucinogenic frogs?

What would happen if a fairytale princess licked a toad instead of kissing it in order to find her prince charming? Trippy hallucinations might await her instead of wedded bliss.

animals.howstuffworks.com

In the United States, another toad species, Bufo alvarius, known as the Colorado River toad or the Sonoran Desert toad, causes similar effects. Although it isn't illegal to own a Colorado River toad in the United States, the active chemical in toad venom, bufotenine, is a controlled substance. This is the same chemical contained in cane toad venom. Bufotenine-related drug arrests reappeared in Southwestern states such as Arizona in the mid-1980s and '90s, following its original heyday in the 1960s.

... and probably well before the 60's.


JSmith