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Please Don’t Lick the DMT Toads, Begs the National Park Service
If you kiss a frog, you don’t get a prince. But if you lick a Sonoran desert toad (Incilius alvarius, formerly Bufo alvarius) you might have a transformative, quasi-religious psychedelic experience — or you might get sick and die. And either way, the National Park Service is asking that you don’t do it on the…
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The Psychedelic Drug DMT Can Simulate A Near-Death Experience, Study Suggests
Not everyone who is close to death — or thinks they are, at least — has a “near-death experience”. But those who do often hallucinate that they leave their bodies, meet otherworldly beings, or see bright flashes and tunnels of light. Those who take the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine, or DMT — a compound found in…