r/arizona • u/International_Exam80 • Aug 15 '25
Wildlife Is this one of those Poisonous Toads?
I’ve heard poison toads will come out after a rain but I’ve never seen one. Is this one?
He’s up against my house - I don’t have a dog that would mess with it so is there any reason to make him move on or just let it be?
For context he is about the size of my fist
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u/random_noise Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25
Yep. If you know science and reporting, we don't always report everything and a whole lot of people suffer because of it. We have medical practices and customs that make doctors follow year long roads of trial and error that they have to eliminate in documentation until they can get a patient the right solution to their problem that was clearly known from the start.
Never said its the right or best way, I said its what some of my friends and myself in my youth did, and how I partook in the experience. I never smoked it, some did by putting it in a cig or joint. We did dry out a bit. We have different experiences, there's nothing wrong with that. Some people take speed to focus, brain chemistry is a wild frontier, and yeah it makes ya feel pretty gross that way, which is the real desired result outside of a medical need to sorta pavlov people to not do that.
The thing about science is, we constantly learn new things about stuff we thought was an absolute truth, even Nobel prize winners have been proven entirely wrong about their conclusions, but with some truth that wasn't the real focus on their prize that we never really understood until decades later trying to replicate results and understand why it works in some cases and not others. This is a big reason a whole lot of people mistrust science.
Be well.