• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    One with a super opiate, albeit short acting, in S. American deserts

    super painkilling, super breathing impairing, both?

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      9 days ago

      I don’t believe so, it is the waxy monkey tree frog, Paul Simon references it in “girls with a necklace of tears,” and around 2010 horseracers in the NE US got caught doping their horses with it, as they are always at the forefront of trying out new and exciting drugs. The article I read said regulators were “hopping mad,” about it.

      They used to be available on order. I think they need dry air if I recall and it’s super humid, and cold, where I’m at so I didn’t order any.

      https://australian.museum/blog-archive/science/frog-goo-to-the-rescue/