Christine J Gold explains bufo, the powerful psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT that comes from the Sonoran desert toad. She clarifies how it differs from DMT and warns against licking or eating the toad, then describes how the venom is actually collected for use.
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all the different types of psychedelics? Like, when you say bufo, whatâ yeah, for me, I'm like, uh, yes, I don't know.
I'd be so happy to. Um, yes, absolutely. So bufo is also 5-MeO-DMT. Um, and right now I couldn't tell you what the MeO part is, how toâ what the actual chemical compound is, but dimethyltryptamine is, is the DMT piece, and 5-MeO bufo isâ comes from toads, um, specifically the Sonoranâ yeah, the Sonoran desert toad. So sometimes they say it's licking the toad, right? Um, and, and it's notâ you really can't go and lick, by the way. Don't try that. It won't work that well because if you try to eat it, um, it's toxic to the, to the body system. So what they do is they will take the venom out of the cheeks of the toad in a very gentle way, and then they'll