# Licking toads **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 20, 2001, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113 "2001-08-20T09:53:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dave\_Stewart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dave\_Stewart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Stewart)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/1 "2001-08-20T09:53:59Z")
In one of the Simpson’s episodes, Homer is shown getting high from licking a toad. Do some toads have psychedelic excretions from their skin? ---
**Author:** ![therealblaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@therealblaze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/therealblaze)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/2 "2001-08-20T10:32:48Z")
True but I’m not going to give you a cite because this thread is soon to be closed anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/3 "2001-08-20T10:54:00Z")
I’m not going to post the answer here becuase I honestly don’t know how the mods would feel about a thread like this (I don’t see anything wrong with it but hey, it’s not my board). But just search google, it’s not hard to find 😉 Marge: Homer are you licking toads? Homer: I’m not not licking toads! ---
**Author:** ![nickc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@nickc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nickc)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/4 "2001-08-20T11:15:02Z")
Bufotenine is the hallucinogenic alkaloid obtained from glands in the skin of some toads and mushrooms. As far as I know, licking a toad wouldn’t do much for you, injection would be much more effective. It’s certainly not safe, and is part of what toads of the genus Bufo use to poison predators. I believe bufotenine is illegal in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Many\_Crows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Many\_Crows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Many_Crows)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/5 "2001-08-20T14:26:12Z")
About a year ago there were 5 youths in a small city near me who thought they’d try it. They all wound up in the hospital with varying degrees of illness. ---
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/6 "2001-08-20T14:30:39Z")
I’m not not licking toads. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/7 "2001-08-20T14:48:37Z")
Cane toads, which are of the genus bufo, are a feral species/ecological disaster in northern Australia, and as such, are subjected to some unusual forms of abuse. One of those includes boiling a couple of cane toads up in a pot to elicit the bufoteninine from the skin, then drinking the contents of the pot to get high… Yuck!!! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/8 "2001-08-20T14:56:41Z")
[Them Toad Suckers](http://www.olefsky.com/jake/fun/poetry/mason/toad.html), by Mason Williams ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-toads/77113/9 "2001-08-20T16:17:12Z")
Can’t believe this thread is still open.