Maybe you’ve heard about psilocybin therapies wherein the psychedelic drug is prescribed to treat PTSD and severe depression . Well, researchers have been hard at work on something similar but with psychedelic toad venom.

The stuffy, cleanliness-obsessed medical world probably won’t ask you to pick up a toad you can lick from your CVS pharmacist, so researchers who published their findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association say they’ve found a way to turn that depression-treating toad venom into an easy-to-use nasal spray.

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5-MeO-DMT is a psychedelic derived from the Sonoran Desert toad. In a phase 2b trial involving 193 patients across the US, Europe, and Australia, researchers tested a synthetic version called mebufotenin benzoate.…