Christina Haack, host of HGTV's "Flip or Flop," said she smoked psychedelic toad venom to treat her anxiety. The 38-year-old smoked 5-MeO-DMT, a venom that can cause hallucinations. The toad venom is ...

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 ...

As tempting as it may be, the National Park Service does not want visitors to lick the Sonoran Desert toad. The toad, also known as the Colorado River toad, is one of the largest found in North ...

The Sonoran Desert Toad, with glands secreting a venom rich in the hallucinogens 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin, is invading Arizona now that monsoon conditions have kicked in for the late summer. They can ...

A Texas church has claimed to invent a novel psychedelic drug used as its sacrament — and has ostensibly been giving it to members of its clergy as one might a communion wafer. But a recent chemical ...

A colorado river toad (Incilius alvarius). The rarely seen amphibian is native to parts of Northwestern Mexico and the Southwestern U.S. Image: Vladimir Wrangel (Shutterstock) A potential depression ...

Hallucinogenic compounds that activate multiple receptors, found in Colorado River toads, show “promising transdiagnostic therapeutic with rapid and lasting effects” for conditions such as depression ...

Eric Andre is leaping at the chance to share his ribbiting drug experience. The comedian revealed that he smoked toad venom on a recent trip to Mexico and got so high that he "had Thanksgiving dinner ...

He’s willing to go on a Mike-edelic adventure for science. Apparently “dying” during a toad venom trip wasn’t much of a drug deterrent: Boxing icon and psychotropic voyager Mike Tyson claims he’d be ...