Colorado River toad

There are a couple more entries for 5-MeO-DMT, one very important one, and the other quite trivial. There is a drug-use phenomenon that is often referred to by the popular title of "toadlicking." The toad involved is the Sonora Desert Toad, also called the Colorado River Toad, and carries the binomial Bufo alverius. It is not the closely related marine toad Bufo marinus, as... 

But how, exactly, does a toad secretion effect the human mind Bufotenin has a very close chemical similarity to serotonin, a substance used by the nervous system to transmit information from one nerve cell to another. Bufotenin overwhelms serotonin-sensitive cells and triggers effects ranging from hallucinations to seizures. Two Toronto men learned about this the hard way. They ended up in hospital after licking a cane toad they had purchased in a pet shop specializing in exotic animals. And a five-year-old Arizona boy did have a brush with death after he put a Colorado River toad into his mouth. (Just why he did this can only be explained by other five-year-old boys.) In any case, this species, bufo alvarias, is the most toxic toad in North America. The youngster developed seizures that had to be controlled with medication. 

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