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I asked about Manzanita for the first time in Southeast Colorado. That was around the time everything started going wrong. A young man had just handed me a wooden pipe hot with smoke and I put down my journal to receive it. I covered the bowl with my thumb and took a few cursory puffs before drawing deeply and inhaling. I tried to guess at its contents but I could only peg tobacco and only because my head began swimming pleasantly as I exhaled. "You know," the young man said, "Most Native tribes believe that smoking the sacred tobacco leaf allows one to travel in the spirit world and the physical world simultaneously." He leaned forward to