Law enforcement authorities are discovering disturbing new trends amongst drug users in their attempts to get high - including extracting and smoking the poison from toads.
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'Toad smoking', a new variation of 'Toad licking', is achieved by extracting poison from the Sonoran Desert toad of the Colorado River. The secretion from the toad contains a powerful hallucinogen called Bufotenine, that can be dried out and later smoked.
While the concept may sound particularly odd, American authorities are taking the trend very seriously - and have made arrests.
One case concerned David S. Theisss, 21, from Kansas City, who was charged in October for three counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia - a toad - after authorities went to a northern Kansas City home to investigate a suspected meth lab.
Theiss also is accused of possessing mescaline, a controlled substance extracted from a cactus.
The Prosecutor said possessing a toad is not illegal, but extracting its psychotropic venom is, livenews.com.au reports
Pravda.Ru has interviewed two leading drug addiction experts Professor Charles Marsden, Institute of Neuroscience, and Dr. Shannon C. Miller, Forensic Addiction and Psychiatric Services, L.L.C., to find out more about unconventional drug abuse.
Pravda.Ru: How does it usually happen that people learn about new drugs and especially about the animals that produce drug substances?
Charles Marsden : These days often through the internet and the posting of information about the use of drugs by various tribal people around the world. Many tribes are depositories of very valuable information about the effects of drugs extracted from plants and animals.
Shannon Miller: Folks usually learn about drugs from other people, or the internet, etc. However, this is an old practice. This toad is liekly Bufo alvarius (the Sonoran Desert Toad). Its glandular venom is 6-16% 5-methoxy-dimethyl-tryptamine. 5-MeO-DMT is a hallucinogen. You can also get the drug from its skin/touching it. It serves to protect this poor little toad from its predators, but obviously humans have learn to squeeze it out of this poor little guy, process it, and use it to get hallucinations. This practice dates back to at least 1959 when South American tribes would use it to make hallucinogenic snuffs for personal use.
Pravda.Ru: This way of drug abuse is far from being conventional. What are the dangers of trying new, unknown drug substances?
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