Editing New Caprican leaf

{{disline|For a [[BW:SILLY|silly]] treatment of this topic, see [[New Caprican loco weed]].}}
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[[File:Adama_laura_toke.jpg|thumb|right|[[Roslin]] and [[William Adama|Adama]] enjoying a smoke.]]

'''New Caprican leaf'''<ref>{{bsgwiki term}}</ref> refers to a mildy-psychotropic plant indigenous to [[New Caprica]].

It is seen briefly, being smoked by [[Admiral Adama]] and [[Laura Roslin]] during the New Caprica groundbreaking ceremony. When Adama asks Roslin about the plant, she confirms that it grows wild in the area. Adama and Roslin take effort to hide their enjoyment of the drug from [[Felix Gaeta]], who may not have approved of such recreational drugs {{TRS|Unfinished Business}}.

Adama and Roslin also enjoy another smoking interlude after she is confined to sickbay in the last stages of cancer. Roslin kept a cigar of the leaf secreted away in one of her books {{TRS|Islanded in a Stream of Stars}}. The two smoke the leaf while discussing ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]''{{'|s}} deterioration.

==Notes==

* RDM confirmed its psychotropic status in the [[Podcast:Unfinished Business|podcast]] for "[[Unfinished Business]]"<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Unfinished Business|act=2|id=stoned|timestamp=16:37|totalrunning=}}</ref>.
* RDM uses the term "joint" when referring to the plant in the [[Podcast:A Day in the Life|podcast]] for "[[A Day in the Life]]". He also notes a scene that was planned, but never shot, of Roslin smoking some of the leaf she had saved from New Caprica<ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=A Day in the Life|act=4|id=joint|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}<!-- Someone please add the times --></ref>. A similar scene actually takes place in "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]".
*Considering its relatively quick application into familiar weed cigarettes and cigars by Roslin and presumably other New Capricans, New Caprican leaf may be related to [[coto]] as seen in ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' or similar plants on {{RDM|Kobol}} and the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. No information is available on whether the plant is a true weed or a parallel to the real-world [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] substance colloquially referred to as "weed" or "[[w:marijuana|marijuana]]."

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