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Originally Posted by Tarantism
a funny side note, i met a guy at the train station a few weeks ago who told me that he was en-route to Colerado for what he called "the gathering". i jokingly asked if he planned on doing any toad licking, he smiled and said "well, yeah, im going to the gathering".  |
Just rereading the Wicky article. Will check "the Gathering" next.
So, is there or can there be a relationship between the Frog Prince fairy tale and psychoactive frog venom? Possibly, according to Wicky article:
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Originally Posted by Wicky
A warning was also published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (November 1990) that stated "the Australian cane toad is popularly kept as a pet in the US, and licked by its owners for the resulting hallucinatory effects," with the note that two types of English toads also have the potential to be used in this way.
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But!...Do NOT lick the toad! Repeat...do NOT lick the toad. Because:
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Smoking or vaporizing the toad's skin or products thereof protects one from being poisoned by the large number of additional toxins present in the secretions that are not volatile on heating or that will decompose at elevated temperatures. Many of these other toxins are peptides and large molecules.
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Off to research the fairy tale angle.
