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snooper2

(30,151 posts) Wed Apr 8, 2015, 11:21 AM Apr 2015

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Getting High with a Hallucinogenic Toad Prophet

VICE

Published on Apr 7, 2015
Our Vice Mexico team went to the Sonora desert in search of the Bufo Alvarius, an endemic toad species that contains a very high dosage of 5-MEO-DMT in it´s body. 5-MEO-DMT is said to be the most potent hallucinogenic in the world.

Our guide through this trip was Octavio Rettig, a doctor who has studied this toad for more than eight year and has brought the medicine - as he calls the substance - all over the world.

We went to Punta Chueca, Sonora, where we hanged out with the indigenous community who has been taking 5-MEO-DMT from the toad since pre-hispanic times. We met Grandpa Pancho - one of the elders of the town - and travelled with him to the sacred island of Isla Tiburón. There we had a small ceremony where we tried the substance for the very first time.

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Getting High with a Hallucinogenic Toad Prophet (Original Post) snooper2 Apr 2015 OP

Kick Warren DeMontague Apr 2015 #1

I think that would be one cool trip...just once though snooper2 Apr 2015 #2

I saw the Hallucinogenic Toad Prophets at the Troubadour last week. Initech Apr 2015 #3

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

1. Kick

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Thu Apr 9, 2015, 04:18 AM

Apr 2015

Informative stuff.

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

2. I think that would be one cool trip...just once though

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 9, 2015, 10:14 AM

Apr 2015

Initech

(100,061 posts)

3. I saw the Hallucinogenic Toad Prophets at the Troubadour last week.

Reply to snooper2 (Original post)

Thu Apr 9, 2015, 10:27 AM

Apr 2015

Awesome jam band.

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