Is it true you can get “high” from licking a toad?
First, bear in mind that there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of varieties of frogs and toads in the world.
SOME of those varieties secrete various toxins to protect them from predators (a bird may eat ONE toxic frog, but after getting sick to his stomach, he probably won’t ever try to eat one again). South American Indians found that certain varieties of frogs and toads could be used to cook up poisons they could use on their arrows.
Now, in SMALL doses, venom from these frogs or toads may produce a non-fatal buzz that some people may have found enjoyable.
But people who pick up a random frog or toad and lick it are unlikely to get anything but a bad taste in their mouths, because MOST frogs and toads don’t have poisonous skin secretions.
Many years ago, a phish-head came up to me after a show that I was doing trippy projections for and offered me a vegetal smoking subtance that was soaked in a tincture made from bufotenine toxin extracted from some variety of toad native to southern California, from which he hailed.
It was too weird to turn down, for an old head like me.
I can’t personally attest to the result from lingual application, but the effect of smoking it was qualitavely indisinguishable from a low dose of DMT, except that it lasted maybe twice as long.
Weeeeeeeird.
Bufotenin
It is not a good idea to go traipsing through the woodlands, picking up and licking any toad you happen to come across. Different species of toads produce a wide variety of Bufotoxins, some of which can be quite nasty.
However, I would pay to see someone doing this. 
If I can play Jr. Mod here fore a moment, threads about how to get high are frowned upon. The OP is asking a factual question though, and my Mod Hat is the wrong colour for knowing if it’s allowed.
Closer to 5,000.
Heed the advice above and do not start licking random amphibians. Homer Simpson is not someone you should seek to emulate in real life.
- Tamerlane
Anyway, I think actual Mods are supposed to know how to spell ‘for’. :o
Well, I’m a real Mod, and I’m closing this thread. Only because it’s been pretty much answered to the standards of GQ.
It’s not really a thread about drugs, or how to get high. If you’re stupid enuf to lick a toad because you read it in this thread, then your demise will only add to the intelligence of our board.
I have no doubt that there is a board out there that tells you which toads to lick, showing the good from the bad. There’s a board for everything that has been though of by humankind.
samclem GQ moderator.
Now, kissing a frog, on the otherhand…