https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/04/busted-for-possession-of-a-toa/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:18:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/04/busted-for-possession-of-a-toa/#comment-1326 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:18:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/04/busted-for-possession-of-a-toa/#comment-1326 Harder than getting them lit, is to get them to leave your apartment the morning after–harder still is reckoning exactly how they got there the night before….

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/04/busted-for-possession-of-a-toa/#comment-1325 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:30:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/04/busted-for-possession-of-a-toa/#comment-1325 The problem with toads is that they are so hard to get lit.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/04/busted-for-possession-of-a-toa/#comment-1324 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:18:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/04/busted-for-possession-of-a-toa/#comment-1324 But what about the people in Kansas City, Kansas?Long time ago, when I was interested in these things, I recall that the received wisdom among those slightly-more-in-the-know than the average newspaper story (but not necessarily a lot more in the know) was that the active hallucinogen in toads was most likely not bufotenine (5-OH-DMT) but something else. I forget what “something else” was, but I think it was most likely 5-MeO-DMT, the methylated analogue.FWIW, Wikipedia kind of seems to back up the 5-MeO-DMT-not-5-OH-DMT story.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-MeO-DMTFrom Chocolate to Morphine by Andrew Weil and Winifred (sp?) Rosen contains a lot of interesting first-person accounts of psychoactive drug use. The toad-venom-smoking account is pretty interesting. It seems to have been a good experience for the user, though; the really interesting ones are the ones where the users have horrible experiences.

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