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,”
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Any place has advantages and drawbacks. We finished moving to this place about three years ago, and I’ll only move again if we win the Powerball and can pay somebody to do all the work.
so the democrats are on Toad
My new favorite insult to mumble:
“Dumb-ass toad lickers...”
Well, that’s not something you read every day.
Back in the day, if we caught a toad, it soon became the payload for an Estes Rocket launch. The only problem was, if you didn’t have any fireproof wadding, the nosecone ejection burn welded the toad to the plastic parachute.
Well now, there’s rocket toads and then there’s licking toads.
Well, maybe Stills and Nash, that is.
And Horny Toads. The Horny Toads were a big payload and their horns also got tangled up in the Estes Rocket parachutes when the nosecone blast occurred. But, that meant we recovered the astronaut toad, usually.
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