You can add the Sonoran Desert Toad to the current escalating body count of threatened species worldwide, as the amphibious creature’s psychoactive secretions continue to gain popularity with ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Humans will do pretty much anything. As evidence of this truth, look at toad sucking. This is not a metaphor. Toad sucking is a real activity, not an urban myth. It is exactly described. You pick up a ...

Psychedelic churches charge thousands to teach practitioners to administer bufo, a trendy “sacrament.” Experts warn these programs are ripe for abuse. Amid towering East Texas pines, smoke and New Age ...

Are hallucinogens' skyrocketing sales arising from a poisonous toad? Ranging from plant drugs, like mushroom-derived psilocybin and cactus-derived peyote, to synthetics like Lysergic acid diethylamide ...

In an unusual turn for an unassuming species, a desert amphibian is at the center of both a potential ecological crisis and an evolving question of drug policy. The creature in question is the ...

Kristin Cavallari is getting candid about her experience with Bufo therapy, motherhood and dating after divorce. On Tuesday, the former "Laguna Beach" star made an appearance on the latest episode of ...

In a mountain town about three hours outside of Mexico City, I sat on the floor of a thatched-roof palapa with blankets wrapped around me as a facilitator (both a researcher and medicine woman) sang ...