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TOAD LICKING THE LATEST HIGH
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Amphibians produce slime that causes hallucinations
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Licking toads will not give you warts or produce a fairy prince,
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but it might get you high. It isn't exactly an epidemic, but the
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Drug Enforcement Administration says toad licking is the latest way
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to hallucinate. "It sounds like a fairy tale gone wrong, doesn't
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it?" said Robert K. Sager, chief of the DEA's laboratory in San
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Francisco. "Now, I don't think this is going to be a great problem
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because people don't go around licking toads as a habit." The
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culprit: the Cane toad. "They're beautiful toads," Sager Said.
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"People like them." The Cane toad, which can grow to the size of a
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dinner plate, produces a toxin called bufotenine, which the toad
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secretes to ward off predators. When licked raw. or cooked, the
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toxin acts as a hallucinogen. In the Southwest recently, several
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dogs have died after eating Cane toads, and the DEA has had
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bufotenine turn up at its research labs from time to time after
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drug arrests. In Washoe County, the prospect of gonzo toad lickers
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in our midst produced a few chuckles in the offices of the county's
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Consolidated Narcotics Unit.
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"We're not aware of any toad-licking problems," said Sparks police
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Lt. Tim Gonyo, who heads the unit. "As far as we're aware of,
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toad-licking has not hit Washoe County." Local pet store operators
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reacted with astonishment. "That's pretty gross," said Michele
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Robinette, manager of Reno's Pets Unlimited. "That's a new one, and
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we've heard a lot of strange things around here." Robinette said
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she knew of no area pet stores that peddle the mind-altering
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amphibian. The green and red toads produce the same toxin found in
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amanita mushrooms, cohoba seeds and other plants. Indians in South
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America have used the toxin for its hallucinogenic qualities for
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years in religious ceremonies, and some tribes have used it in
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blowguns to kill dinner. Bufotenine is considered a controlled,
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dangerous substance and is therefore illegal.
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However, it is not against the law to own a Cane toad. a favorite
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of aquarium afficionados. "If you had a toad. we would have to
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prove you were licking it on purpose, or you had given it to
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someone to lick on purpose," Sager explained. The Cane toad has
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come into some renown in Australia. where four people died last
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year after partaking of its marbled flesh. (Depending on the size
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of the toad and the concentrations of toxin consumed. bufotenine
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can be fatal). The toad was imported to Australia from Hawaii in
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1935 to kill the Greyback beetle, which was destroying sugar-can@
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in Queensland. The toad adapted beautifully, multiplied in the
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millions and ate everything - except for the beetle. Last fall,
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officials in Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city, announced an
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elaborate plan to eradicate the poisonous toads, which today pose a
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major threat to the continent's fauna and wildlife. In recent
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years, toad licking has become popular in the Australian outback,
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prompting Queensland's government to classify the toad slime as an
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illegal substance under its Drug Misuse Act. "That's how this whole
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cycle started - a lack of dope in the Australian outback," Sager
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said. "There, they are killing the toads, drying the skins and
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making tea. Yummy, huh?"
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Okay, so I'm not sure if the above is true. I'm passing it on
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because with the way that we operate as a national group, it would
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not be inconceivable. Several people have told me that it is for
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real.........G O O D L O R D........
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Distributed in part by:
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The very LAST bastion of Abusive Thought in all of the Suburbian West Coast...
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