In order to take drugs, someone actually went to lick the toad! Americans have found a new alternative to drugs: the Sonora toad
Recently, the National Park Service (NPS) issued a reminder calling on the public not to lick Sonora toads.
It is understood that some people have found that this toad will secrete a substance that makes people hallucinate and pleasure similar to drug use, and many Americans replace drug use by licking toads.
Cornora Toad
At present, the Cornora toad has become a new business opportunity, and even has a related industry, some people specialize in breeding this creature, and some people have founded a crowd drug organization specializing in "licking toads".
The Sonora toad lives in the Connora desert and is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Americans call it toad, and here in China it is called toad. I remember when I was a child, my elders once warned me that this creature has poisonous pimples on the surface of its body, don't touch it with your hands, otherwise your hands will get rashes...
Toads have evolved their appearance to be like this, how do Americans get their mouths down?
The elders say pimples, referring to the toad's sebaceous glands, mainly distributed as the posterior ear glands, which can secrete a substance called toad crisp (mostly white liquid).
Toad crisp can be collected in China, applied to bamboo chips, glass dried in the sun, used as traditional Chinese medicine, can detoxify, reduce swelling, relieve pain.
But the toad crisp of the Corsola toad is more special, with 5-methoxydimethyltryptamine (5-meo-dMT) and toad tryptamine inside.
These two substances belong to the hallucinogenic category. A neuromediator in the human body called serotonin binds these two substances well.
Moreover, these two substances have a high affinity for serotonin, making people feel warm, pleasant, and strong visual auditory hallucinations. It works in 15 seconds.
At first, I thought that the act of "licking toads" was the brainchild of someone or organization after studying the literature on the Konora toad, and later found that it was a local historical tradition. Local artists also often use this method for inspiration.
The real well-known to drug addicts is in the 90s of the last century, the US Drug Enforcement Administration found that some young people showed madness, confusion and other similar to drug use, they found toad tryptamine in these people's bodies, but they could not find drugs on their bodies or at home...
But there are toxins in the toad's secretions, such as cardiac glycosides similar to digoxin, which can be fatal when ingested. The toxin of a Cornarado River toad can easily kill a pet dog.
The wild toad said it was panicked
However, not everyone chooses to lick the toad directly, and some rich people choose to extract the toad toxin, which is safer. But many people who don't have money can only choose to lick directly.
Because the United States has relevant laws, the capture of this wild toad requires a license. Unexpectedly, someone sneaked into the wild park in the United States at night, captured the Konora toad, licked and released it...
Recently, due to the surge in the number of licking toads in the United States, wild toads are about to be wiped out, forcing the US National Park Service to issue a public notice advising tourists to stay merciful.
There are also multiple warnings that "toad licking" can also cause anxiety, nausea or seizures, and in some cases even death.
The result backfired, and many people who did not take drugs on the Internet said: they did not know about this operation until the state told him that he could not lick...
Drugs harm
Behind the wild toad crisis is America's growing drug problem. I can't manage it myself, and I can still promote the legalization of marijuana. More extreme politicians come up with such bastard words as "people have the freedom to harm their own health".
You know, 1 kilogram of heroin is 13 years in prison in the United States, and in China it is shot n times.
Chinese will not forgive drugs, and not just because we have historically suffered from opium. All the more because it concerns the people, looking at the families torn apart by drugs, do you want our country to become like this? Looking at the anti-narcotics police who died in the anti-drug cause, could it be that their blood was shed in vain?
Today's years are quiet, and there are people who carry the weight for us. Please cherish life and stay away from drugs.