Joe Rogan Experience - #1576: Mariana van Zeller

In this episode:

Joe sits down with award winning journalist and documentarian, Mariana van Zeller. The two discuss her new series on National Geographic (Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller), whether or not drugs should be legalized in the US, bizarre luxuries in Asian countries, and much more.

More from Mariana van Zeller:

• Instagram- @marianavz Twitter- @marianaVZ IMDb

• Mariana’s Podcast- Trafficked

Show Notes:

• Pill mills in Florida

• Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller episodes

• Should coca leaves be legal in columbia?

• 8:45- Mate de Coca tea

• Article- Portugal’s decriminalization of drugs

• Article- California’s black market is much larger than its legal market

• 19:30- Oregon recently decriminalized all drugs

• 28:00- Jaguars get high on plant called yage

• Cocaine prepared with concrete and gasoline

• 44:00- Provigil

• 53:30 Rich Piana’s death

• 58:45- guy who was supplying steroids to MLB players- Tony Bosch

• Steroid use in professional tennis

• Video- Luke Thomas talks about drug usage in fighting

• 64:00 Myostatin inhibitors & whippets

• Article- China testing CRSPR (HIV and gene-edited twins)

• 70:30- Cloning in argentina (polo horses are cloned)

• Article- Why we’re scared of monsters

• 78:00- guy in Texas killed by mountain lion

• Video- Mountain lion chasing guy on trail

• Study- 50% of mountain lions diet were pets

• 88:00- Tiger bone wine (National Geographic article)

• Article- More captive tigers in the US outnumber tigers in the wild

• Article- The rhino horn market

• 99:00- Article- Chinese fish bladder investment craze

• Portugal meal- baby eels

• 102:00 Gunmen force Mexican government to release El Chapo’s son

• Fast and Furious debacle under Obama Administration

• 118:00- The romance scam

People Mentioned:

• 31:00 Dr. Gabor Mate talks about addiction rooted in trauma

• 50:00- Bodybuilder- Tony Huge

• Bodybuilder- Ronnie Coleman (as a cop)

Books and Documentaries:

• 00:30 Documentary- Oxycontin Express

• Book- Hidden War by Jim Nores

• 62:00 Bryan Fogal documentary- Icarus

• Documentary about steroids in baseball- Screwball

• 95:00- Documentary- Sea of Shadows about the totoaba fish