Join us in this episode of the Drug Science Podcast as Prof David Nutt speaks with Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, a Peruvian chemical biologist and founder of Amazon Research Internacional. Rosa shares how her upbringing between the Andes and the Amazon shaped her career, and describes the campaign that won legal rights for Amazonian stingless bees, the first insects to receive them. She goes on to discuss ayahuasca, fair benefit-sharing with indigenous communities, and the pressures of ayahuasca tourism, drawing on her book The Spirit of the Rainforest.
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