Yikes on smoking basil! lol!
My understanding is that: basil primes (or opens receptor sites, cellularly) to receive cannabinoids. It’s part of the whole entourage effect... mango, chamomile, and hops will also do the same thing. My understanding is that these can be eaten 2 hours before a person plans to ingest and it will enhance their high. That’s part of the reason people get really drunk on (very little) beer when they mix it (by drinking beer and using cannabis within a few hours of one another.)
Mixing is not for a novice. It’s easy to green-out and be sick, if you’re not careful. ;)