About 5 months ago I obtained a piece of cured Mapacho, Nicotiana rustica, Indian Tobacco aka Makhorka - a smaller but on average 4x more potent plant:
I took 0.1gr in my mouth, i got woozy, not of my choosing, 0.05gr was better, 0.03gr a sweet spot, each on separate days.
I'm a shamanic type person, I actually talk with the spirits of the plant. This can be learned, it starts with extending your faith that it can be done - worthy of another thread.
Mapacho told me how it hated what was being done with it and with Tobacco in general. It despises "curing", likening it to being thrown on the compost heap to rot, then dried in a form now packed with toxins and carcinogenic decomposition products and then, additives added and abused as a smoke all day long, killing the people it wants to guide - without a chance to guide them, reduced to a harmful drug of abuse, all the lethality of heroin but none of its gratification.
It didnt want me to use the piece of Mapacho anymore, literally likening it to a turd, what had been done to it so people could smoke-abuse and snort-abuse, both things he abhors.
I'll go with He, its a Masculine spirit.
He asked me to do two things: to order, from Ukraine, heirloom Makhorka seeds, supporting the war effort while obtaining Nicotiana rustica seeds from the glory days of pre-soviet and soviet union bygone days, hardy for cold, harsh, dry, extreme climates, farmer hand selected for well over a century and a half. Then, this coming growing season, to grow it, harvest less of an ounce of leaf for my needs for the year, and seeds.
But also to do another thing in preparation: to buy 1mg and 4mg nicotine lozenges, such as used for quitting smoking, and using 1-4mg once every other day or so, not just to train myself to uncouple nicotine from the memory of smoking towards oral use, and to build a light tolerance and to get my heart-mind axis used to that YES, there will be nicotine again but NO, it will not come accompanied with all the medical horrors of smoking or addiction at this point. It will be a once-every-other-day treat to ease my brain and digestive system with nicotine benefits without any of the detriments of abusive ROA or abuse, period.
It's been almost 5 months now. The warm season for planting in my windowsill is coming.
All this time I used these doses, once every other day, no addiction, no discomfort, no head rushes, peacefully like an ADULT.
It's a small pleasure, but used like this, the south american native way of putting a bit on your tongue and going about your day, uncured, unpolluted - it's right this way.
I'll take the leaves when they are most fresh, swiftly dry them green, pulverize, a pinch on the tongue and suck it, 20 pinches to a gram just like there are 20 cigarettes to a pack, but without any of the perversion of curing, smoking and exploitation of plant, land and user alike.
I'm going to write a lil booklet about this adventure, y'all will get a free PDF through Omnicyclion.org cause, it's high time to set the slaves of Marlboro country free, don't you think? Enough smoking, spitting, vaping, patching, top dollar gum and pouches.
Coming soon.
