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Ethnobotanist, author and Amazon explorer. Skoll Social Entrepreneur and TED speaker. President of @AmazonTeamOrg . Host of the podcast, “Plants of the Gods"

Arlington, VA
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#NewOrleans updated version of the White Russian cocktail!
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Stable genius
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He wrestled with quitting, but - being the patriot he is - decided to wait for a book deal
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Esper talks about wrestling with quitting, which he says he considered several times, but says he was concerned that an increasingly emboldened Trump post-impeachment would install loyalists to carry out requests like the missile one
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Kevin: “I demand another vote - tis only a flesh wound!” #MontyPython
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Did he get his filter vacuumed??
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Jerry Falwell: I Lent $1.8 Million To A Venture Involving A Pool Attendant via @aramroston
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@ananavarro That they are smarter and more honest than he is??
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The secret to healthy living!
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Ghost buses??
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Who you gonna call? 👻👻👻
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Asking why Republicans don’t have their own “Marc Elias” is like asking why Vladimir Putin doesn’t have his own “Volodymyr Zelensky”
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the reason the GOP side will never have their own @marceelias is because he fights for the rights of people *to* vote and Republicans argue for the opposite - which is simply a fundamentally less appealing argument.
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Tribes want ‘immediate action’ to reverse Trump’s cut to Bears Ears National Monument
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6 years
Rumor has it that he may even propose federal holidays on December 25th and January 1st- stay tuned!!
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Trump, a true innovator, is thinking about having a parade on July 4 to celebrate America.
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Plants of the Gods birthday cake!
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@BrenLG @EdKrassen @RepAdamSchiff And his closet full of dingbats, I mean his Cabinet!
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Foghorn Leghorn and Mr. Haney had a baby…the odious Senator from #Louisiana
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Maybe they should ask #GeorgePBush for advice 😂
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Palmer Report
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At this point Trump is screwing over House Republicans out of spite
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Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Ambassador having a great time in the OVAL OFFICE
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@NormEisen I am covering the bedroom ceiling with this so you REALLY get in the mood!!
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Working with Richard Evans Schultes in his library, 1988 #ethnobotany
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The indigenous peoples of the #AmazonRainforest showed me how they used this plant for medical purposes in 1982 - once again, the indigenous peoples got there first! #Cannabis #Suriname
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@fine1102 @Lee_in_Iowa @MollyJongFast So is the value of Stephen Miller!
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“unemployment is stunningly low. Gross domestic product growth has grown at three times the average pace as under President Donald Trump, real incomes are rising, manufacturing is booming, and inflation has eased for 10 straight months.”
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The human brain doubled in power, very suddenly, 200,000 years ago. Why? - Stoned Ape? Or Drunk Monkey hypothesis?
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Superb new phrase of the day: “Scaramucci calculator” !
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Anyone have their Scaramucci calculator handy?
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If you have ever seen “The Mummy” or “Jurassic Park,” you know this can only end well-
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First comes climate change, now global worming.
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Maria Sabina’s house, #Huautla , #Oaxaca , in which the Wassons first took the magic mushrooms photo: MJP
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5 years
The Amazon Conservation Team is proud to partner with the Trio indigenous peoples of the northeast Amazon to produce ORGANIC BIODEGRADABLE STRAWS from rainforest plants in honor of #EarthDay !
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In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth , talking with one of my #rainforest heroes the immortal JANE GOODALL #SHEROES
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Sean Hannity is a 'welfare queen' @CNN
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@ananavarro Yes, but what was the quo for the quid??
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Breaking News: VP named NATO’s MVP!
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Richard Stengel
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Putin said NATO's expansion eastward was why he invaded Ukraine. Now his invasion of Ukraine has expanded NATO's border with Russia by 833 miles with Finland officially joining today. Finland was once an emblem for neutrality. No longer. Historic. Anything else happening today?
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3 years
No rainforest, no rain
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Southern and central Brazil are in the midst of the worst drought in nearly 100 years, with agribusiness exports of coffee and sugar, and the production of hydroelectric power, at grave risk:
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Survey results just in from New Orleans:
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“The part of Paul Lynde will be played by Lindsey Graham”
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Are they gonna fry? Or is there gonna be a squid pro quo??? #malacology
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This is likely part of an effort to develop a case against Trump associates like the Calamaris to give them a reason to flip. Based on what is public, the Mar-a-Lago case still looks like the strongest potential case Trump faces. Smith continues to investigate aggressively.
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@QuancyClayborne Q, ask the questions in RUSSIAN
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The pen he used to sign the Magna Carta
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What special ornaments does Chuck Grassley hang on his tree?
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#Ethnobotany : a little-known classic, with important articles by luminaries such as Gordon Wasson and Albert Hoffman
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Check out May Pang’s brilliant new film, “The Lost Weekend.” May (on the right) is seen here backstage at The Concert for George,” with unidentified band member. (Photo: MJP)
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Isn’t it amusing when an odious phony Canadian-Cuban like the mega odious Ted Cruz - tries to impugn the Texas-ness of Texan-born #BetoORourke ??
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Power to the People ☭🕊
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First he smokes @tedcruz in a debate and then he plays air drums to The Who. Please Texas, don’t screw this up! #BetoForSenate
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“BUSTED: Trump’s Lawyer @MichaelCohen Lied. He DOES Have Russian Kremlin Contacts” by @grantstern
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“Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter () from @tferriss
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@blakesmustache To be clear: you are predicting he loses both?
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America is facing down a nuclear-armed opponent and this is the GOP’s priority:
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Worst thing to happen to Lincoln since that play
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Trump Says Sleeping Only Four Hours a Day Not Affecting His Ability to Cljjryff via @BorowitzReport
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Wise words worth following!
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Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. If you are
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@johnlundin @SpeakerRyan He won’t be able to understand the question because it will be asked in North Korean-
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What the well-dressed ethnobotanists are wearing this season...
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@AshaRangappa_ Finally! A Trump operation that turns a profit!
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4 years
First lecture tonite for my online course on the #AmazonRainforest for #HarvardSummerSchool !
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@tonyposnanski @AngelPeralez1 Are you SURE? Was he fired at KFC??:)
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@QuancyClayborne Hilary’s emails about Benghazi??
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My aunt had stage fright so I gave her a gummy.... lord help
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Correction: AND weed!
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An new interview with the inimitable Rhett Butler of Mongabay. Note that Mongabay is the number one global site for accurate and timely rainforest (and other ecosystems) news - if you don’t yet follow it, you should-
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Taking a break working on my new podcast series, “Plants of the Gods.” Today’s episode: “ #Ergot , #LSD and the Origins of Western Religion.” Follow on Spotify-
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My new book on the #AmazonRainforest , now available from Oxford Press and at your local bookstore! Also on Kindle, Nook, and iBooks-
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Meeting with my old friend, the immortal Jane Goodall, today in Senator Leahy’s office at the US Capitol!
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@itsJeffTiedrich But will you at least agree with him when he says the penalty for treason should be death??
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3 years
A piece of clickbait appeared today, offering the opportunity to purchase “Nature’s Morphine!” But isn’t “Nature’s Morphine” (wait for it…)…morphine?
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@FourCM @RichardEngel Civil War, or just wholesale slaughter of betrayed allies? Syria redux?
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Next podcast episode: Dr. Peter Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School on his new book about #MedicalCannabis !
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#Marijuana : “new” copy of this ageless classic, just arrived!
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Eaten by Steve Bannon?
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Just out today-
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Plants of the Gods podcast just passed 250,000 downloads! Celebrating with (of course!) #ABSINTHE :)
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Check out Tim Ferriss’ brilliant “mashup” of the most popular episodes on the mind-altering plants of #Amazonia from my “Plants of the Gods” podcast: Dr. Mark Plotkin on #Ayahuasca , Shamanic Knowledge, the Curse and Blessing of #Coca , and More ( #508 )
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Vermont style!
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“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator. But among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” — W. H. Auden via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter () from @tferriss
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Happy 20th birthday to Amazon Conservation Team Suriname! (Photo: Antonio Peluso/ ACT)
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Join forces with two of the most inspiring people I know - Tim Ferriss and Paul Stamets - to purchase and protect these sacred indigenous rainforests!
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Tim Ferriss
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The indigenous peoples of South America are in a centuries-long struggle to reclaim and protect their ancestral territories. Mycologist @PaulStamets and I would like to help kickstart a land purchase campaign for the @AmazonTeamOrg at . We will each commit
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#Coffee as you have never heard it - or drunk it - before!
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NEW podcast episode is up! Dr. Mark Plotkin on Coffee, The World’s Favorite Stimulant — Chemistry, History, and More cc: @DocMarkPlotkin Please enjoy! 🙌
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Promo for my new podcast on #hallucinogenic plants (and animals and fungi) of the world!
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Plants of the Gods Podcast
4 years
In 8 days, we will introduce you to the shamans and an array of healing plants in the Amazon Rainforest🌴 #podcast #amazonrainforest #naturalmedicine #nature #hallucinogenic #psychedelic #followthejourney
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@RVAwonk @MichaelAvenatti Better line from Avenattipalooza re Cohen: “He’s not strong, not smart and not from the neighborhood!”
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The Amazon Conservation Team was honored to have one of the great spiritual leaders of the #Kogis address our Board Meeting!
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“Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw , hat tip to Tim Ferriss @tferriss
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The WORST weekend for biodiversity since the meteor killed the dinosaurs #RIPTomLovejoy #RIPEOWilson
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Glenn H. Shepard
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First Tom Lovejoy, now E.O. Wilson: two giants of tropical science and biodiversity conservation have passed on. May their legacy live on in all those they taught, reached and inspired.
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How’s that Brexit thing working out over there? Prosperity and stability?
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@TheRickWilson They need to focus on the Vince Foster story!
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Mueller’s strategy, based on #ElmoreLeonard
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Good news from the @AmazonRainforest !
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Amazon Conservation Team
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Read about the impact of our work in our latest annual report. Click here: #ACTonClimate
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GREAT NEWS FROM THE #AMAZONRAINFOREST , COURTESY OF THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT, THE AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM AND - MOST IMPORTANTLY - OUR INDIGENOUS COLLEAGUES!! Happy Holidays!
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Amazon Conservation Team
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Today is a day of celebration! The Aduche Indigenous Reserve in the Colombian Amazon has been expanded. 122,287 additional hectares have been titled to the Andoque people and their reserve now connects to a 10-million-hectare conservation corridor.
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@tedlieu @stevenmnuchin1 Mr. Representative, PLEASE insist that ALL these crooks pay back the money they wasted. Yeah, YOU TOO, Tom Price!!
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Visiting the highly successful ACT sea turtle nursery on Costa Diva’s Osa Peninsula. Hat tip to Tortugas Preciosas!
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With shaman Yaloeefuh in south Suriname - working together almost four decades!
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@funder I hardly know the kid, believe me!
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@PreetBharara Prediction: your law will come in handy VERY SOON - and Bruce will write a song about it:)
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