Seminar Recording · Culture & Ecology

5-MeO-DMT, Toad Medicine & The Ego Trip

With Kimon de Greef

Journalist Kimon de Greef discusses his book The Ego Trip and years of reporting on the history, ethics, ecology and commercialization of “toad medicine.”

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What you'll learn

How the modern "toad medicine" movement rose, including the influence of Octavio Rettig
Questions surrounding claims of ancestral Indigenous use
Psychedelic tourism in Sonora and the economics of collecting toad secretions
The ecological and human costs of harvesting Sonoran Desert toads
The pharmaceutical race to develop synthetic 5-MeO-DMT

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