Purple Leaf

Earlier, during the time of afternoon while he roaming around the jungle in order to collect the four herbs which were used to make those combination of spices for the grilled fishes, there was one particular type of smell that June was able to capture almost at every time whenever he had stopped to use his amplified sense of "SMELL" within the forest.

That was a smell that is very commonly found in the hilly terrains.

It was the smell of the common weed or in more common words the smell of the cannabis plant.

As far as June could remember within his memory from the earth this was a tall plant with upright stem and divided serrated leaves.

The main use of this plant was to produce drugs that were mainly used in order to help the patients whose body was suffering from cancer and in some other cases it was also found very effective on the people who suffered from medical conditions such as hypertension, very high blood pressure, and also the condition of fits which may become the cause of some severe seizures which could easily become life threatening.

The main function of the drugs that were produced with the help of this plant was to decrease the excess of the mental activity that might increase the heart rate of the patient and relaxing the work load on the heart.

But everyone also agrees on one very important fact that the drugs like cannabis are not primarily famous for their 'good' uses but instead they majorly gain their status of being popular among the masses only because they are used illegally.

June completely understood its effects, and although he had never used this cannabis plant for himself before, because in the world of science, any and every thing that is capable of somehow affecting the working of mind and body could not be ignored from research ever.

That is the main reason why June also knew one of the very important fact about this plant.

The smell that this plant could produce when its leaves are burned, is able to produce such a strong smoke that even with the little intake of its smell, our lungs are capable of absorbing huge proportions of it very quickly.

If this smell is exposed within a closed room for a few minutes, then its odor will have a tendency to retain its effectiveness for a period that is much longer than the retaining percentage of the odor of a room freshener itself.

With the help of his amplified sense of "SMELL", after looking around the bushes for a small period of time, June finally found the plant with had that particular type of similar smell similar to the cannabis plant around twenty five meters away from the location of his wooden hut.

This plant was not at all similar to the cannabis plants that he knew about back from the earth. This plant was not more than one foot tall and had around thirty small purple colored leaves.

It looked very similar to those decorating colored bushes that are commonly used in the gardens and city parks which run along the boundary of the concrete or tiled walking path normally present in the park.

June plucked out a handful of purple leaves from that plant and took a careful look at them. Then he teared a small portion from one of its purple leaf and put it inside his mouth, and then at the same time he closed his eyes and activated his sense of "TASTE", and a blue number popped up within his dark vision in the 'TASTE INDICATOR'.

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"So, there is actually no harm in eating it, well that is a good start. Now let's check if there is any harm in smelling it or not"

With the handful of purple leaves clenched within his fists, June walked back to his original position and sat right in front of the fire, where he had been sitting before.

Then he put those handful of leaves by his side and picked a single one of those purple leaves in his right hand. Then he moved his right hand closer to the fire and put the one end of that purple leaf on fire.

As a little smoke started to come out of the burning purple leaf, June moved that half burnt purple leaf closer to his nose in order to inhale a little amount of its smoke.

While inhaling that small amount of smoke from the purple leaf, with his heightened senses, June could immediately feel his lungs instantly absorbing the smoke and pushing it directly into the blood stream.