Mark Plotkin

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Aubrey Marcus Podcast · Ethnobotanist: "We're Losing Shamanic Wisdom" — The Secrets Of The Amazon | Mark Plotkin Ph.D. #539 · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And another point I want to make about these things is some of this stuff's really endangered.

I mean, peyote is an ugly, little, tiny, slow-growing cactus.

And some of the indigenous peoples have trouble finding enough for their rituals because a bunch of, you know, so-called psychonauts are going there and pulling it out by the roots.

On the other hand, ayahuasca is kind of a weed.

I mean, it grows well in a lot of places.

I've seen it all over in Hawaii.

So people over sold it.

It's like, oh my God, ayahuasca is going extinct.

Well, not that they're growing in Istanbul and Israel and Indonesia and Berkeley, right?

Species aren't going extinct.

There may be varieties in the Amazon that are lost if the porous is cut down.

And we should be concerned about that as well.

You know, Albert, if you make that into a bumper sticker, let the toads chill.

I do.

I got in an argument with a very famous London surgeon a couple of months back who said that we're facing this terrible crisis of drug-risking bacteria, which we are, and the best hope was artificial intelligence.

And I said, absolutely not.

The best hope is HI.

And he said, what does that mean?

I don't know the term.

I said, it's human intelligence.

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