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Mike Tyson on Smoking Toad Venom 3 Times A Day: “I Look at the World Differently… Everything Is Love”

By James St. James on November 17, 2021 10:15 am

Former Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson recently admitted to smoking toad venom as much as three times a day for its powerful psychedelic effect, and claims it has made him more creative and focused.

“In my trips, I’ve seen that death is beautiful,” Tyson told the New York Post at Wonderland, a Miami conference devoted to hallucinogens. “Life and death both have to be beautiful, but death has a bad rep. The toad has taught me that I’m not going to be here forever. There’s an expiration date.”

For those of you who have yet to try it, the Sonoran desert toad’s predator-repelling toxic secretions are processed into a dry paste that is smoked to quickly usher in an intense high, according to the Addiction Center. The trip can be physically incapacitating for about a half-hour.

“It’s such an intense experience that, in most cases, doing it at a party isn’t safe,” Alan K. Davis of the Psychedelic Research Unit at Johns Hopkins University said in a 2019 Addiction Center report. “It’s not a recreational drug. If people get dosed too high, they can ‘white out’ and disassociate from their mind and body.”

It can also produce anxiety and result in a visit to the emergency room, Davis added.

Tyson first started down the path of the toad a few years ago when he says he was 100 pounds overweight and abusing alcohol and drugs. He credits it with helping him slim down, resume boxing and reconnect with his family.

“I did it as a dare,” Tyson recalled. “I was doing heavy drugs like cocaine, so why not? It’s another dimension. Before I did the toad, I was a wreck. The toughest opponent I ever faced was myself. I had low self-esteem. People with big egos often have low self-esteem. We use our ego to subsidize that. The toad strips the ego.”

Tyson now keeps Sonoran desert toads on his ranch in Desert Hot Springs, California. 

“The toad’s whole purpose is to reach your highest potential,” he told the Post. “I look at the world differently. We’re all the same. Everything is love.”

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