Thanks for that Boolie! Using the quid method I certainly found no comparison, not even a hint, to smoking X20 or X60 extracts. But I am still very thankful for what Sylvia gave me. She's still just a child, after all.
BTW, while we're on the subject of the quid method, there's something I've been thinking about and would like to propose to the group:
In one of his recordings Terence McKenna talked about the process of preparing leaves to assemble a quid. He described using his thumbnail to remove the center vein out of each leaf. Then,he referred to rolling up the "leaf pairs" rather than "pairs of leaves" into a quid. Why on earth else would he use the awkward term "leaf pairs" or, for that matter, "pairs of leaves" to describe a simple number?? If there were no special meaning to the term, instead of 13 "leaf pairs", why wouldn't he just say "26 leaves"????
Seems to me an unnecessarily awkward use of language unless the term "leaf pair" has a special meaning. Elsewhere I've read that the Mazatecs also cut each leaf to remove the center vein, then place it with the superior surfaces facing each other, repeating and stacking leaves atop one another before rolling them into a cigar shape.
I therefor suspect the "leaf pair" McKenna spoke of is not two leaves at all but, rather, each "leaf pair" is actually only ONE leaf that has been prepared in the traditional Mazatec fashion (so each "leaf pair" is really one leaf, halved via removal of the center vein, and then stacked onto itself with the top surface of each "half" facing the other "half's" top surface).
What do y'all think??
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