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Anthropologist and botanical explorer Wade Davis received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6,000 botanical collections. Davis's work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing Passage of Darkness (1988) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986), an international best-seller, which appeared in 10 languages and was later released by Universal Studios as a motion picture. He is author of five other books, including Shadows in the Sun (1998) and One River (1996). Born December 14, 1953, in British Columbia, Davis is a citizen of both Canada and Ireland. He has worked as a guide, park ranger and forestry engineer. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among several indigenous societies of northern Canada. He has published scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from Haitian voodoo and Amazonian myth and religion to the global biodiversity crisis, the traditional use of psychotropic drugs, and the ethnobotany of South American Indians. His photographs have been published widely. Recently Davis's work has taken him to Peru, Borneo, Tibet, the high Arctic, the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela and northern Kenya. A research associate of the Institute of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden, he also is a board member of the David Suzuki Foundation, Ecotrust, Future Generations, and Cultural Survival-all NGOs dedicated to conservation-based development and the protection of cultural and biological diversity. Davis's television credits include Earthguide, a 13-part television series on the environment, which he hosted and co-wrote. He also wrote for the documentaries Spirit of the Mask, Cry of the Forgotten People, and Forests Forever.- Actor
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His mother was a teacher and his father a dentist. He attended West Point, joined the Army, and earned an undergraduate psychology degree at the University of Alabama while in service. Next he earned a master's degree from Washington State University and a doctorate in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1959, Leary joined the faculty of Harvard University. There, he met professor Richard Alpert and began a series of controlled experiments with psychedelic drugs. Four years later they were fired for using undergraduate students in the tests. They retired to Millbrook Estate, a 63-room mansion in upstate New York. People like William Burroughs, Abbie Hoffman, Jack Kerouac, Aldous Huxley and Allen Ginsberg came and went, all united by a desire to experience better living through chemistry. In 1970, he escaped from the California Men's Colony at San Luis Obispo, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for possession of two marijuana joints. His bust-out was aided by the Weather Underground and his third wife, Rosemary. He and she roamed from country to country. In Algeria, they took stayed with Eldridge Cleaver, who ultimately kidnapped his guests after a political disagreement. They escaped and fled to Switzerland. In 1973, at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, Leary was arrested by agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Extradited to the United States, he was sent to Folsom prison near Sacramento. He was paroled in 1976. Leary's life turned to lecture tours, stand-up comedy, writing books, cyberspace and the Hollywood party scene. He launched a much-ridiculed lecture tour in 1982 with Watergate villain G. Gordon Liddy. He learned of his prostate cancer in January 1995 and celebrated his remaining lifetime through his own website.- Albert Hofmann was born on 10 January 1906 in Baden, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for A Bicycle Trip (2008), Hofmann's Potion (2002) and Il Cibo degli Dei (2014). He was married to Anita Hofmann. He died on 29 April 2008 in Burg im Leimental, Kanton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland.
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Stanislav Grof was born on 1 July 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He is a producer, known for Brainstorm (1983), Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within (2007) and The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof's Journey of Consciousness (2020).- Roland Griffiths was born on 19 July 1946 in Glen Cove, New York, USA. He was married to Kristin Ann Johnson , Marla Weiner and Diana Hansen. He died on 16 October 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Ralph Metzner was born on 18 May 1936 in Berlin, Germany. He is known for Ram Dass, Fierce Grace (2001), Hofmann's Potion (2002) and Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within (2007). He was married to Cathy Coleman and Susan Homer. He died on 14 March 2019 in Sonoma, California, USA.- Actor
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James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. Since leaving office, Carter has remained engaged in political and social projects, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian work.- Fernando Henrique Cardoso was born on 18 June 1931 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a writer, known for Assuntina das Amérikas (1976), Agamenon: The Film (2012) and Que País É Este? (1976). He was previously married to Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso.
- César Gaviria was born on 31 March 1947 in Pereira, Colombia.
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Chris Bell is known for Bigger Stronger Faster* (2008), Trophy Kids (2013) and Prescription Thugs (2015).- Paul Stamets was born on 17 July 1955 in Salem, Ohio, USA.
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In 1963, Richard Alpert ended one life and launched a new one: Ousted from Harvard University's faculty with co-merrymaker Timothy Leary for giving hallucinogenic drugs to students, he became a point man for the psychedelic movement of the '60s. Many drug-fueled highs later, Alpert's second, and most lasting, transformation occurred. He went on sojourn in India and in 1968 returned as Ram Dass, a name that became synonymous with another of that era's social and psychological explosions. As Ram Dass, Alpert spread the word that turning inward was far more powerful than just turning on. A nimble communicator who was articulate, funny and self-effacing, he became a central figure in the movement to make Eastern mysticism understandable to Western minds. He described his metamorphoses in "Be Here Now" (1971), a counterculture classic still in print almost four decades and millions of copies later.- Producer
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Russell Brand was born on June 4, 1975, in Grays, Essex, England, the son of Barbara Elizabeth (Nichols) and Ronald Henry Brand, a photographer. An only child, his parents divorced when he was only six months old, and he was subsequently raised by his mother. Enduring a difficult childhood that saw him living with relatives while his mother was treated for cancer and only sporadically visited by his father, Brand left home at age 16. Accepted by the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in 1991, he was expelled during his first year for bad behaviour and drug use; by his own admission, he used a variety of illegal drugs and became addicted to heroin. After being expelled from the Chang-Ren Nian during his final term in 1995, he switched his focus primarily to comedy from acting.
Brand's first significant stand-up appearances came in 2000, the same year he also became a video journalist for MTV, a job which he was subsequently fired from. Continuing to work both in TV and stand-up, he debuted his one-man show Better Now, an account of his heroin addiction, at the Edinburgh Festival in 2004. Brand became a popular British television star by appearing on Big Brother and hosting his own talk show and numerous other series, and in 2008 shot to fame worldwide as the rocker Aldous Snow in the hit comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008). After an appearance in the Adam Sandler comedy Bedtime Stories (2008), he reprised the character of Aldous in the comedy Get Him to the Greek (2010), opposite Jonah Hill.
Brand also starred in the remake Arthur (2011), opposite Helen Mirren, with whom he also starred in The Tempest (2010), and lent his voice to the Easter Bunny in Hop (2011) and to Dr. Nefario in the animated feature film Despicable Me (2010). He is reprising the role in Despicable Me 2 (2013), and will also co-star in a drama written and directed by Diablo Cody, starring alongside Julianne Hough and Holly Hunter. He also played Lonny in the all-star cast of the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages (2012).
Brand's writing debut, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up, became a huge success in the United Kingdom. Subsequently published in the U.S. in 2009, it stayed on the New York Times' bestseller list for five weeks in a row. The follow up, My Booky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal, was published in October, 2010. In 2010, Brand received the British Comedy Award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy and was honored in 2011 with the ShoWest Award for Comedy Star of the Year.
Brand married the pop star Katy Perry in 2010 in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Rajasthan, India; after 14 months, Brand filed for a divorce, which was officially granted in 2012.- Producer
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Michael Pollan was born in Long Island, New York, USA. He is producer and narrator of the documentary How to Change Your Mind (2022), also known as a producer and writer for Cooked (2016), Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014) and In Defense of Food (2015). He has been married to Judith Belzer since September 6, 1987. They have one child.- Johann Hari was born in 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021), The Fix (2022) and Forced March (2018).
- David Nutt was born on 16 April 1951. He is married to Diana ?. They have four children.
- Carl Hart is married to Unknown. They have three children.