Bufo alvarius: a potent hallucinogen of animal origin.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1994 A T Weil, W Davis 125 citations
Anthropologists have long speculated that ancient peoples of Mesoameria used a toad, Bufo marinus, as a ritual intoxicant. This hypothesis rests on many iconographic and mythological representations of toads and on a number of speculative ethnographic reports. The authors reject B. marinus as a candidate for such use because of the toxicity of its venom. A more likely candidate is the Sonoran...