The speech of the mystical shaman of Victoria who ended up in detention for organizing rituals to smoke toad poison

M.F sat under the Aztec sun and felt the ancient vibration. On March 11 of this year, the 48-year-old man, a neighbor of Victoria in the northern part of the Conurbano - whose identity is kept in reserve in this note so as not to hinder the investigation against him - began filming his speech for Youtube in front of one of the Teotihuacán pyramids, built on the outskirts of Mexico City. “Good, a new video for the channel. I'm in a very special, incredible place. We have explained why you do the experience for the first time, why you reiterate it, how you prepare it, how you incorporate it,” he said as a preamble: “Now, let's talk about being, the state of consciousness that one accesses.”

That state I was talking about was a really powerful one, and a purely clandestine experience. Last week, M.F ended up in detention by the Federal Police.

In recent years, Victoria's man had become a benchmark for the local consumption of the poison of bufo alvarius, a toad from the Sonoran desert of Mexico. The poison, in the form of crystals, is smoked in a pipe to access visionary states, profound hallucinations and visions that occur thanks to its alleged presence of DMT molecules, a psychoactive agent that is also part of ayahuasca and has been punishable by Argentine law since the 2016 update of the Drug Law decree. His devotees also talk about therapeutic properties, almost immediate psychological improvements. M.F is not a pioneer. The Inner Mastery organization, raided in Mar del Plata in 2018, was already selling workshops for curious people and psychonauts seekers. In any case, the man is insistent.

The poison of the toad began to appear timidly in Argentina during 2016 and 2017 in “ceremonies” and “workshops” in La Plata and the Federal Capital. It is usually part of the ayahuasca circuit, the so-called wheels frequented by young people of middle and upper middle class in search of healing or a narcotic experience that no drug provided by a average transa can supply. It is a purely cultural situation, outside the parameters of the usual drug trafficking. Their facilitators do not pose as dealers, but as teachers.

Thus, M.F was arrested last Saturday by the Chemical Precursors division of the Federal Police, which reports to the Superintendency of Dangerous Drugs, in a case led by federal judge Claudio Mirabelli. They found him literally in the middle of a shamanic ceremony in a fifth of Ingeniero Maschwitz, where more than 20 people attended around a white tablecloth on the floor of a special adobe hut. M.F basically had to smoke.

There, he was found 80 grams of toad crystal that tested positive for dimethyltryptamine before reactive test analysis, as well as a bottle with 35 milliliters of liquid LSD, his pipes and his shamanic implements.

Victoria's man fell, precisely because he wasn't hiding. He had his Facebook page where he offered a WhatsApp contact. “Good toads!” , he told his followers. Before the pandemic, he offered workshops in San Juan and Berazategui, he also offered them in Uruguay. A year earlier, in 2019, he had announced that he would speak at the World Bufo Alvarius Congress. He did so, with a speech in Mexico City in a colorful room, where nothing illegal seemed to be sold or announced. “Ten years ago this wasn't in anyone's head,” he said there.

Thus, they began to follow him. Their migratory movements once again attracted attention. “I'm holding sessions and retreats,” she wrote to someone who was asking weeks ago. After a last session offered in the area of Pereyra Iraola Park, they went for him.

By smoking the crystal, “one connects with the being, with the smallest particle of that being. And from there you emanate, you go to the essence of that love where you came from,” he continued in the video under the pyramids: “It's an instant, inside space, but outside of time.”

The poison, on the other hand, involves several unwanted side effects, with taking experiences that are usually done without a clinician available. They can end badly. In 2019, Nacho Vidal, a star actor of porn film, ended up in detention and then released after a friend of his ended up dead in his house in Valencia after smoking it.

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