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This is clearly good news for the humble Sonoran Desert toad, which may one day be able to go about its business without the risk of some bug-eyed enthusiast trying to pick it up and give it a lick.

Psychedelic toad secretions and celebrity reports of psychological recovery from use intrigued researchers, who developed a ...

Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science report engineering a single tobacco plant to produce five tryptophan-derived compounds, including the psychedelics psilocybin and DMT. The work, ...

The substances have been used by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years, but they've recently become popular as possible ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists engineered plant-made psychedelics to produce DMT and psilocybin, offering a sustainable alternative to wild ...

Scientists have mapped the structure of a psychedelic drug derived from the Colorado River toad, which seems to have antidepressant effects. Reading time 3 minutes A potential depression treatment ...