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The Sonoran Desert toad can alter your mind — it’s not the only animal
Science News ^ | 14 May 2023 | Deborah Balthazar

Posted on 05/16/2023 3:06:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Last fall, the U.S. National Park Service sent out a message on Facebook asking visitors to “refrain from licking” the toad (technically Incilius alvarius but commonly called Bufo alvarius). That message came months after a New York Times article covered the booming interest in the psychedelic compound that the toad excretes from its skin — along with the “poaching, over-harvesting and illegal trafficking” that have accompanied that interest.

They “work orally, through the mucous membranes, and cause really dangerous side effects, like cardiac arrest,”

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: licking; toads
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“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” Arnold Toynbee
1 posted on 05/16/2023 3:06:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What if an ugly duckling is looking for a prince?


2 posted on 05/16/2023 3:09:59 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Attention concert goers! “DO NOT LICK THE YELLOW TOADS!”


3 posted on 05/16/2023 3:11:48 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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4 posted on 05/16/2023 3:12:23 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Yeah, from Democrats.


5 posted on 05/16/2023 3:12:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: KarlInOhio

Are there any interesting subjects that Homer S. has not been involved in?


6 posted on 05/16/2023 3:13:51 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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7 posted on 05/16/2023 3:15:16 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Refrain from licking the toad...”

Yup, this is what a powerful government tells you.


8 posted on 05/16/2023 3:15:35 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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Let's see. I can go to the ice cream parlor, or I can lick a toad? Decisions, decisions …

9 posted on 05/16/2023 3:18:09 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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“Refrain from licking the toad...”

Yup, this is what a powerful government tells you.
= = =

This is SO true, on many levels.


10 posted on 05/16/2023 3:19:33 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My wife and I were within a few miles of Toad Suck, AR two weeks ago, but we managed to resist the side trip.


11 posted on 05/16/2023 3:21:49 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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12 posted on 05/16/2023 3:22:42 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I went there once for a family reunion. It was nice and on the Arkansas River.


13 posted on 05/16/2023 3:26:42 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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14 posted on 05/16/2023 3:30:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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like a princess today knows the difference between a toad and a frog.

but if you find the right one They/Them could become your charming Prince


15 posted on 05/16/2023 3:35:16 PM PDT by algore
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When I lived in Tucson in the 70s the hippies were already licking toads. Sounds like they were lost and rediscovered.


16 posted on 05/16/2023 3:41:43 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: dfwgator

That will make you catatonic.


17 posted on 05/16/2023 3:49:27 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: algore

The earth-tone warty skin should all by itself be a deterrent to any impulse to “lick the toad”. But then, some people just cannot resist a challenge or a dare.

Something very Darwinian about that.


18 posted on 05/16/2023 3:50:50 PM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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To: BipolarBob

Just looked at it on Google Earth, appears to be a nice area. We stayed overnight at Maumelle on our recent trip.

For a time we were considering retiring to western Arkansas, maybe somewhere outside Mena, but eventually we decided to stay in Arizona.


19 posted on 05/16/2023 4:00:28 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Mena is probably greener than AZ. It’s not too far from Hot Springs which is a nice touristy type town. I like the looks of the area myself. It has running streams and pine trees and mountains. But AZ sounds nice as well. I’m in the NW corner myself and at my age it’s hard for me to think about moving.


20 posted on 05/16/2023 4:09:03 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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