Ex-boxing champ Mike Tyson says he smokes toad venom as much as three times in a day for its powerful psychedelic effect, and claims it has made him more creative and focused.

Not to mention that he is able to envision a life beyond, uh, life.

In my trips, Ive seen that death is beautiful, Tyson told the New York Post at Wonderland, a Miami conference devoted to hallucinogens. Life and death both have to be beautiful, but death has a bad rep. The toad has taught me that Im not going to be here forever. Theres an expiration date.

Toad venom packs a heavy punch and is illegal to possess. The Sonoran desert toads predator-repelling toxic secretions are processed into a dry paste that is smoked to quickly usher in an intense high, according to the Addiction Center . The trip can be physically incapacitating for about a half-hour.

Its such an intense experience that, in most cases, doing it at a party isnt safe, Alan K. Davis of the Psychedelic Research Unit at Johns Hopkins University said in a 2019 Addiction Center report . Its not a recreational drug. If people get dosed too high, they can white out and disassociate from their mind and body.

It can produce anxiety and result in a visit to the emergency room, Davis added.