TJ TOCE
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TJ Toce

Author of How the World Gets High and Street Names Exposed

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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“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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