Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | Brought to you by <a href="http://wonderyplus.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wondery Plus</a>, <a href="http://foursigmatic.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Four Sigmatic</a>, and <a href="http://theragun.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Theragun</a> Dr. Mark Plotkin (<a href="https://twitter.com/DocMarkPlotkin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DocMarkPlotkin</a>) is an ethnobotanist who serves as president of the <a href="https://www.amazonteam.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon Conservation Team</a>, which has partnered with 55 tribes to map and improve management and protection of 80 million acres of ancestral rainforests. Educated at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts, Plotkin has since spent much of the past four decades studying the shamans and healing plants of tropical America from Mexico to Argentina, although much of his work focuses on the rainforests of the northeast Amazon. He is best known to the general public as the author of the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Shamans-Apprentice-Ethnobotanist-Medicines/dp/014012991X/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice</a>, one of the most popular books about the rainforest. His new book from Oxford Press is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-What-Everyone-Needs-Know%C2%AE/dp/0190668296?tag=offsitoftimfe-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know</a>.His upcoming podcast series is titled Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens: Culture, Conservation, History and Healing, and it will be coming out in late October. 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#469: Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America

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