Recently, U.S. national parks have faced great challenges in this matter
It's a bit disgusting to say
That's a lot of young people running into the park
Lick! Scabies! Clams! Toad!
That's right, as in the literal sense, recently, people take advantage of the dark night and high wind every day to run to the park to catch wild toads, and then people pick them up and lick them wildly and then release them, making the toads panic.
The U.S. National Park Service had to issue an announcement advising visitors to keep their lips shut.
The staff also kindly attached a photo of the victim with the caption: "The Colorado River toad in the Arizona park is staring at you!" ”
It is estimated that many people have not figured out why people lick wild toads when they live well, after all, that thing looks terrible, carries bacteria, and is still sticky.
In fact, this is not a sand sculpture network challenge, certainly not because it is delicious, not because it can become a prince or princess, but because American folk are rumored to lick toads to get the pleasure of drugs.
Gradually, licking toads "drug use" is no longer an urban legend in Europe and the United States. It's really happening and it's rapidly gaining popularity in the United States, mostly young people.
Even the American super popular cartoon "The Simpsons" has had the strange behavior of "licking toads"▼, which can be said to be very common and popular in the United States!
In addition, many celebrities are keen on licking toads. Among the toad-licking addicted "celebrities" is one, named "Hunter. Biden", who once preached that toad toxin would keep him "awake for a whole year."
"Boxing King" Mike Tyson has also publicly stated that he smokes toad toxin, and openly praised its benefits, "It was toad toxin that helped me return to boxing."
Christina Haack, a 38-year-old female anchor of HGTV in the United States, has also not shied away from publicly stating that she is a big fan of toad toxin, righteously saying that it has treated her "anxiety for 20 years" and "changed her life".
Americans have been addicted to "chemical bliss" for so long that any thing that brings pleasure can become disgusting.
At a Colorado service store called Colorado Toad Shelter, owners say their store holds multiple "private toad toxin ceremonies" every day, with a "ceremony" costing $125 per person and each "ceremony" lasting less than one hour. Not long after opening, they have welcomed more than 3,000 "happy customers".
"Customers come to our store from their teens to their 60s!"
In March, the New York Times reported that a U.S. military "Navy SEAL" special soldier had used the toxin under the guidance of a doctor to relieve his central nervous system symptoms. But it soon became clear that human licking this toxin produces drug-like hallucinations and pleasure ...
That wild toad
What the hell is it?
Many toads secrete a toxin from the gland when stimulated by the outside world, and trace amounts of the toxin can cause auditory hallucinations.
▼ The toxin of a Colorado River toad can easily kill a pet dog
Tommy, attending physician at a pet drug centre in Queensland, said: "Queensland dogs are becoming more and more addicted, and in addition to relapse, the center also has at least 10 new cases of toad licking addiction every day. ”
In drug rehabilitation centers, dogs are also divided into three levels of drug addiction according to the severity of addiction:
The first level is newly addicted to drugs, but has not yet formed dependence;
The second level is usually repeated after going out, indicating that a withdrawal reaction has occurred;
The third level is that drug addiction has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and will keep drooling, scratching the wall, like a psychosis,
For dogs poisoned into the bone marrow, they can become depressed, demented, and even forget their owners.
Because toad toxins are too poisonous to them, their nervous systems will even suffer irreversible damage and even be killed by drugs.
Of course, not all toads secrete toxins, and not all toxins can be used as hallucinogens.
The Colorado River Toad in the United States is targeted because it can release secretions from near the eyes and chin, and humans may feel like drug use after touching it, or touching it through the eyes, oral cavity and other mucous membranes.
So many poor Americans who can't afford drugs will go to the park to find toads, scare them and lick the toxins on them.
However, different types of toads secrete toxins differently, and some addicts lick frogs that do not secrete toxins together. It can be described as drug addiction and madness!
Subsequently, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said that humans eating raw or cooked poison toads will have hallucinogenic effects.
This effect is the same as the toxin found in the famous North American poisonous mushroom Amanita and some nightshades, and ancient Native Americans would use this venom to make hunting arrows or use it in religious ceremonies.
Modern people quickly discovered that toad tryptamine can be used to make drugs, but! Toad tryptamine venom is prohibited in countries such as the United States, Australia, Sweden, Turkey, and China.
Although the odd drug miracle of American licking lazy toads
It is still relatively rare in the mainland
But let's not take it lightly
Here are some new hallucinogenic drugs
They put on a "coat"
Hidden in our daily lives
01
"Tea tree mushroom"
This "tea tree mushroom"
I heard that after eating
You can see little people all over the world
Hallucinations soon appear
Even coma to death ...
In June 2020, the police cracked a drug case and arrested seven suspects, unlike common drugs, this time seized a new drug "tea tree mushroom". "Tea tree mushroom" drug is called psychedelic mushroom, contains hallucinogenic substances, after taking it will cause people to hallucinate, if ingested in large doses will seriously endanger the health of the body.
In July 2020, Shandong police issued an investigation notice to the Honghuagang Public Security Bureau in Zunyi, Guizhou, alleging that a new drug called hallucinogenic mushroom was purchased online in its jurisdiction. After the suspect Zhang arrived at the case, he confessed that he purchased psilocybin mushrooms through the Internet.
Psilocybin mushrooms look like this▼
02
"Ayahuasca" is most common in South America
Known as a "religious hallucinogen"
Many shaman tribes have ayahuasca rituals
Even developed a "ayahuasca experience tour" in the local area
Therefore, it is also known as the Peruvian Amazon Adventure must-have
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Xiamen intercepts for the first time the hallucinogenic new drug "ayahuasciva"
In the movie "Inception", the protagonist shuttles between dreams, only a gyro to distinguish reality and dreams, and for Xiao Ge, who smokes a new type of drug "ayahuascen", there is almost no obvious boundary between reality and dreams, and he loses himself in the "Inception" of new drugs. On September 14, the reporter learned from the Xiamen Siming police that the police of the local police station cracked a case of trafficking a new type of drug "ayahuascen", which was also the first time that the Xiamen police cracked this new drug case.
A new drug seized, ayahuacca, seized by the police
03
In recent years, the succulent jun
Has become a "net celebrity" in the plant world
With its cute appearance
Tenacious vitality, fecundity
Let more and more people love it
But!
There is a class of succulents
They contain hallucinogen-like drugs
It can cause hallucinations and mental confusion
Even life-threatening
Recently, Shenzhen Huanggang Customs in Guangdong Province released news that a number of "poisonous cactus" entry cases were seized. Unlike ordinary thorny cacti, this type of "poisonous cactus" belongs to the "thornless cactus" and is called "silver crowned jade". According to reports, silver-crowned jade belongs to the genus of black feathered jade in the cactus family, native to the Americas.
Similar cases are not isolated cases, in April this year alone, the travel inspection channel at Huanggang Port seized five consecutive cases of passengers entering the country with silver crown jade, with a total of more than 120 silver crown jade plants with a total weight of about 30 kilograms. After preliminary investigation in these five cases, almost all of the passengers involved were short-term multiple-trip passengers, and the purpose of bringing plants into the country was to earn "work expenses", which ranged from 300 to 500 yuan.
Whether it's licking a poisonous toad or trying other new hallucinogenic drugs, the essence is the same.
Don't raise these toxic creatures or plants in your own home under the title of "animal protectionist", "biologist", "toad lover", "wild mushroom researcher", after all, the law does not allow drugs to be used as a child's play!
Smoking is suspected of being illegal, and trafficking is suspected of being a crime. Don't try it out of curiosity! One curiosity, ruined a lifetime!
Source: Liuzhou anti-drug comprehensive collation from the British newspaper sister, plain son, take you to travel all over the UK, etc