Getting High with a Hallucinogenic Toad Prophet

Our Vice Mexico team went to the Sonora desert in search of the Bufo Alvarius, an endemic toad species that contains a very high dosage of 5MEODMT in its body. 5MEODMT is said to be the most potent hallucinogenic in the world. Our guide through this trip was Octavio Rettig, a doctor who has studied this toad for more than eight year and has brought the medicine as he calls the substance all over the world. We went to Punta Chueca, Sonora, where we hanged out with the indigenous community who has been taking 5MEODMT from the toad since prehispanic times. We met Grandpa Pancho one of the elders of the town and travelled with him to the sacred island of Isla Tiburón. There we had a small ceremony where we tried the substance for the very first time.