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i think it has something to do with the fact that today there is considerable effort to maintain strain lineage, and when someone buys seeds for a certain haze, the genetics of those seeds are more or less directly carried through from the original plants companies named.
the only real argument ive heared is that "purple haze" was not perseved in anyway, and endlessly crossbread and such, so that today there is no plant that has the genetics handed down from the old mother plants.
from what ive seen, for example, there is no "purple haze" on menus in amsterdam, because growers simply dont have seeds from that "bloodline"
i dont know how much this is true, and certainly its hard to really tell how thoroughly lineages are maintianed today, because there is really no large-scale commercial grower that needs to keep a product mantained for a large market.
as i always say though, it doesnt really MATTER what we call it.
im sure even many of the medical plants sold as certain strains or whatever arent as consistant as people believe, because there is no real regulation for it. (think of the day when marijuana companies are forced to maintain lineage and product quality the way pharmeceutical companies have to.)
either way, you probably dont have REAL purple haze, even if it does exist. but if its dank and tasty, smoke it and call it whatever the hell you want.
p.s. one day if i decide to grow, ill probably use seeds from a real seedbank, and refer to the plants by the strain on the label, but who really cares what its called?
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