I'lll never do the toad. Only synthetic.
+1 to that. Cleaner drugs aside, it seems cruel to capture and torment these toads in order to harvest their secretions. I wouldn't want to start out a trip like that.
Right on, keep spreading that message. Hamilton Morris is super worried about these guys going extinct. You have habitat destruction from agriculture and road construction (they are drawn to the lights from headlights where they freeze in the middle of the road and get hit), poaching, climate change affecting their seasonal patterns… and they are only becoming more popular with people like Mike Tyson talking about “the toad” in every podcast he goes on.
“A certain man had the good fortune to possess a goose that laid a golden egg every day. But dissatisfied with so slow of an income, and thinking to seize the whole treasure at once, he killed the goose; and cutting her open, found her — just what any other goose would be”