Cane toads not good for highs.In the Northern Territory Northern Territory, territory (1991 pop. 132,780), 520,280 sq mi (1,347,525 sq km), N central Australia. It is bounded on the N by the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Darwin is the territorial capital. In the north are lowlands, in the southeast are low plains sloping toward the Lake Eyre depression, and in the southwest are the MacDonnell Ranges., children as young as 12 are licking cane toads TOADS - Take Off And Die Syndrome (surfing; to take off on a wave that is far too large) TOADS - Technical Online Assistance Database System in an attempt to get high. Some teenagers and young adults are even skinning the toads and drying out their skins in order to smoke them. But Northern Territory health officials are warning the public that those who lick or smoke cane toads are playing with death, and that there aren't any hallucinogenic properties in the cane toads' bufo toxins. Didier Palmer the director of emergency medicine at Royal Darwin Hospital said that people who ingest the bufo toxins are more likely to die than get high from it. He said that people who do this run a very high risk of seizures, rapid loss of consciousness, cardio-vascular collapse and death (NT News, 28/09/05, p. 1). Lily James, Taroona High School, Hobart |
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