Stronger than DMT: Bufo toad venom (VICE)

VICE, Oct. 28, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

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The toad venom that's stronger than DMT: Bufo | High Society

(VICE) Tulum, Mexico, is experiencing an explosion of people taking Bufo alvarius. Also called “speed-toading,” taking it involves smoking the milked poison of the Sonoran Desert toad in a glass pipe.

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It (5-MeO-DMT) is considered to be the most powerful hallucinogen in the world. Now, growing numbers of psychedelic American tourists are traveling to Tulum, where Bufo ceremonies are legal, in search of a life-changing experience.

However, there are reports of profoundly negative experiences, lasting psychosis and allegations of sexual assault during ceremonies.

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VICE’s Matt Shea visits Tulum to see and directly experience Bufo tourism firsthand, to discover whether taking the world’s most powerful hallucinogen is worth the risk.

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