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Ep. 72 - Jeremy Narby - Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge

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Can Tobacco Smoke Kill You?

Nicotine essentially functions as an insecticide that's why the plant this is why scientists think the plants produce nicotine so it insects that come and chomp on tobacco leaves are going to get all discombobulated or even paralyzed or even fall dead. Just a little bit of it can kill an animal but smaller doses have these different impacts, he says. Tobacco often has or nicotine has a paradoxical effect it can be used for poison  it can also be used for medicine it can be depending on just what the problem is say Amazonian people.

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