hello this podcast is available unedited and ad-free at URL_TOKEN hamilton morris each month i released three to four new podcasts and it was patreon exclusive until recently many people contacted me and said they wanted me to figure out a way to make it freely available and so i decided to accept sponsorship from a few of my friends one of them is david rentlin the founder of a company called lucy nicotine they make nicotine gum nicotine pouches nicotine lozenges some of which are made with synthetic nicotine which i think is pretty cool now if you don't already use nicotine i recommend that you don't start it's habit forming but if you already do use nicotine products and especially if you smoke tobacco cigarettes i can say that this is a cleaner product and it's also a product that i use personally if you go to URL_TOKEN and use the code hamilton you get NUMBER_TOKEN off your purchase this podcast is also brought to you by mind cure a canadian life sciences company producing synthetic ibogaine that is also engaged in psychedelic research with mdma they're doing some cool work and i'm on their board of advisors lastly this podcast is brought to you by top tree herbs an herbal tea company founded by my friend and pharmacopia producer soren shade this is not a traditional sponsorship and that i'm not receiving any money from them but soren is actually a producer on this podcast they grow their own kratom domestically in appalachia in a greenhouse which is very beautiful and they source leaves internationally do third party testing i've been to the lab where they do the testing they test for heavy metals and other adulterants and it's ethically sourced in tea bag form you can find their teas at URL_TOKEN hello everybody well it's official i have covid now i made it almost two years evading this viral infection but i've got it it's not so bad probably would be a lot worse if i weren't vaccinated and so i am now on day NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN of being home alone isolating myself from other people which has been a pretty good opportunity to listen to and edit interviews so this interview is with a journalist named peter gorman he is a very interesting person for a number of reasons he's probably best known for being the journalist who broke the phylo medusa bi-color skin secretion story to the world writing about it for omni magazine and then having his reporting used to inspire the great scientist vittorio or spamer discoverer of serotonin in his own research on the various peptides that are present in these skin secretions this is obviously a topic that i've found very interesting in some sense it was the beginning of my journalistic career was interest in phila medusa by color i remember getting a call from a producer named santiago steli in NUMBER_TOKEN and he said we're going to brazil we are filming a number of stories and i've been reading some of your writing and i'm wondering do you know of any interesting drug related things that we could do in the brazilian amazon and i said yeah i mean it's the amazon there's a million interesting things that you
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN hello this podcast is available unedited and ad-free at URL_TOKEN hamilton morris each month i released three to four new podcasts and it was patreon exclusive until recently many people contacted me and said they wanted me to figure out a way to make it freely available and so i decided to accept sponsorship from a few of my friends one of them is david rentlin the founder of a company called lucy nicotine they make nicotine gum nicotine pouches nicotine lozenges some of which are made with synthetic nicotine which i think is pretty cool now if you don't already use nicotine i recommend that you don't start it's habit forming but if you already do use nicotine products and especially if you smoke tobacco cigarettes i can say that this is a cleaner product and it's also a product that i use personally if you go to URL_TOKEN and use the code hamilton you get NUMBER_TOKEN off your purchase this podcast is also brought to you by mind cure a canadian life sciences company producing synthetic ibogaine that is also engaged in psychedelic research with mdma they're doing some cool work and i'm on their board of advisors lastly this podcast is brought to you by top tree herbs an herbal tea company founded by my friend and pharmacopia producer soren shade this is not a traditional sponsorship and that i'm not receiving any money from them but soren is actually a producer on this podcast they grow their own kratom domestically in appalachia in a greenhouse which is very beautiful and they source leaves internationally do third party testing i've been to the lab where they do the testing they test for heavy metals and other adulterants and it's ethically sourced in tea bag form you can find their teas at URL_TOKEN END_SPONSOR_TOKEN