Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

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Are hallucinogens' skyrocketing sales arising from a poisonous toad? Ranging from plant drugs, like mushroom-derived psilocybin and cactus-derived peyote, to synthetics like Lysergic acid diethylamide ...

Celebrities including Mike Tyson and HGTV's Christina Hall have previously admitted to using toad venom Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She ...

In an unusual turn for an unassuming species, a desert amphibian is at the center of both a potential ecological crisis and an evolving question of drug policy. The creature in question is the ...

The Sonoran Desert stretches a little more than 100,000 square miles across the hardscrabble terrain of California, Arizona and northwestern Mexico. It’s what’s known as a “hot desert” – defined as ...

Victoria Barbara’s life has been split in two: Dark decades of secret misery before she tripped on trendy toad venom — and the enlightened bliss she claims came after. The glamorous influencer with ...