Tobacco of course has been by degrees disguised, demonized and dragged down into gas station industries and chemical skullduggery. The refined abominations of insane monkey business. That ruthless brutality that likes to rip, rape and frankenstein things reached tobacco, too, some time ago.

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This is due in part to the ways in which making mapacho is an art. In the cure you see, are clues to this. Doors and windows representing different shapes and shades of “coloured feathers” — other spirits, other plants — their strength, voices, velocity and momentum intertwined, composed, designed sacredly, deadly serious.