leky-latky/bufo-alvaris/legislativa

State laws

• National attention after a story was published in the New York Times Magazine in 1994
• California teacher who became the first person to be arrested for possessing the venom of the toads
• Bufotenin, had been outlawed in California in 1970

• 2007, a man in Kansas City, Missouri
• Discovered with an I. alvarius toad in his possession
• Charged with possession of a controlled substance
• After they determined he intended to use its secretions for recreational purposes

• Arizona, one may legally bag up to 10 toads with a fishing license
• Criminal violation if it can be shown that one is in possession of this toad with the intent to smoke its venom

• None of the states – California, Arizona, and New Mexico – legally allows a person to remove the toad from the state
• Arizona Game and Fish Department
• "An individual shall not... export any live wildlife from the state
• Transport, possess, offer for sale, sell, sell as live bait, trade, give away, purchase, rent, lease, display, exhibit, propagate... within the state..."

• California
• I. alvarius has been designated as "endangered"
• Possession of this toad is illegal
• Unlawful to capture, collect, intentionally kill or injure, possess, purchase, propagate, sell, transport, import or export any native reptile or amphibian, or part thereof..."

• New Mexico
• Toad is listed as "threatened"
• Taking I. alvarius is unlawful