Introduction

The story of the week is... The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads by C'mon DeGrief from The New Yorker. People I know go to mushroom parties, take trips to South America to do ayahuasca, and see couples therapists in which they bond while on psilocybin. Poison from the Sonoran Desert Toad is the Mount Everest of psychedelics. It's so intense it can wipe out your ego, leaving you all alone in the empty void. Nevertheless, celebrities like Joe Rogan and Mike Tyson love Toad.