News coverage… for the wrong reasons! Or are they good?
As for most wildlife, the Sonoran Desert toad’s natural habitat in northern Mexico and the southern United States has been severely encroached on by human development. In addition, this toad has one more reason to be worries: from its glands you can extract a potent psychedelic compound. A recent study in the journal ACS Omega outlines a new method for synthesizing 5-MeO-DMT that is 99.86 percent pure. According to the authors, psychedelic research is currently being hindered by a lack of access to pure research chemicals, yet they believe their method could now be used to produce the drug for clinical trials.