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TJ Toce

Author of How the World Gets High, Street Names Exposed, Molly, Lucy & Mary Jane and Lucy, Charlie & Tina

I am a career retail executive who has always been curious about psychedelics and could not stop pulling the thread. My first book, How the World Gets High, is the result — a global tour of sacred mushrooms, Amazon vines, mad honey, and desert toads, and the science that is finally catching up to nine thousand years of human practice. My second, Street Names Exposed, grew out of the little A-to-Z dictionary I kept while writing the first. I am not a scientist. I am a very persistent seeker.

The Books
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How the World Gets High

A global tour of sacred mushrooms, Amazon vines, mad honey, desert toads, and the new science that is finally catching up. Kindle, paperback and hardcover. Also in Kindle Unlimited, and any bookshop or library can order it.

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Street Names Exposed

Molly, Adam, Disco Biscuits: same drug, three names. A fast, fun A-to-Z of 54 drugs and 677 of their street names, straight from DEA and NIDA sources, plus the wild truth behind every one. Kindle and paperback. Also in Kindle Unlimited, and any bookshop or library can order it.

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Molly, Lucy & Mary Jane

The playful word search of real drug street names. Forty-seven puzzles, 600-plus names straight from the DEA’s own list, and the Wild Truth under every one. Yes, “Bruno Mars” is on the list. Paperback, 8.5 x 11. Book 1 of the Street Names Exposed Puzzles, and the gift for the friend who knows everything.

Find the Names on Amazon
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Lucy, Charlie & Tina

The playful crossword of real drug street names. Fifty-eight puzzles, 600-plus names straight from the DEA’s own list, letter counts in every clue, and the Wild Truth under every one. What Whiskers has for dinner: CAT FOOD. That’s ketamine. Really. Paperback, 8.5 x 11. Book 2 of the Street Names Exposed Puzzles.

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“I am not a scientist. I am a very persistent seeker.”

I have spent my working life in retail — sourcing, merchandising, getting product from a factory to a floor on a date somebody promised a customer. These days that work is T-Suite Advisors. When I got curious about psychedelics, I did what I have always done: I pulled the thread.

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