Psychoactive toads is a name used for toads from which psychoactive substances, including bufotoxin, can be derived. The skin and venom of Colorado River toad (Bufo alvarius) contains 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin. Other species contain only bufotenine. These chemicals are considered to be psychedelic and/or hallucinogenic drugs. The skin or venom of the toads may produce psychoactive effects when smoked.

The slang term 'toad licking' is dangerously misleading by virtue of sounding harmless; the practice of 'toad licking' can lead to death or permanent damage. Smoking or vaporizing the toad's skin or products thereof protects one from being poisoned by the large number of additional toxins present in the secretions that are not volatile on heating or that will decompose at elevated temperature. Many of these other toxins are peptides and large molecules.

External links

• Erowid's Psychoactive Toads Vault