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{{quote|''"I'd like to remind all my readers, especially you impressionable young people, that if you must lick a toad, make sure it's wearing a condom. Thank you."''
|'''[[Dave Barry]]'''}}
Licking the backs of toads to [[Mushroom Samba|get high]].
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In fiction, the psychoactive toad is commonly used as a [[G-Rated Drug]].
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Compare: [[Alien Catnip]], [[Fantastic Drug]], [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* One ''[[X-Men]]'' spinoff series featured Toad Boy, a young mutant who secreted a powerful narcotic.
== [[Film]] ==
* There is an Australian documentary about cane toads, which covers using toads as hallucinogens.
{{quote|'''Hippy''': Don Juan the Yaqui brujo says that when you take peyote, you become as one with the spirit of the cactus ... yer toad's the same. }}
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* A character in ''[[Big Trouble]]'' has an encounter with a toad of this nature, and spends the rest of the book firmly believing that a politician's wife is trying to eat his soul.
* [[Carl Hiaasen]]'s eccentric governor-turned-hermit Clinton "Skink" Tyree frequently licks toads.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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{{quote|'''Snorkel Guy:''' Dude, what is wrong with you? You made me drop my toad!}}
* A hallucinogenic toad turned out to be a major plot point in an episode of ''[[Jonathan Creek]]''. The toad wasn't native to England and had been imported by a local hippie colony for this very purpose. The presence of the toad, allegedly in the prime suspect's house, was what led to Jonathan solving the case he was working on.
* An episode of ''[[Skins]]'' ([[Trans
* When the gang from ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' riffed ''Jack Frost'', there was a talking mushroom man; the characters wondered what a talking mushroom would eat to get high, and the only answer anyone can come up with was, "I think they lick toads."
* The solution to the ''[[Eleventh Hour]]'' episode "Cardiac" involves kids attempting to get high off frogs.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20100219.html One strip] from ''[[Head Trip]]'' claims that James Cameron came up with the inspiration for ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' after licking a toad.
* ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' has gnomes running a [http://www.pbfcomics.com/201/ toad race]. Evidently, in some sports elimination begins before the start.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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