[jknife]

Being a heavy conesouer of fine marijuana (my uncle's a botanist/pothead and my dad (and i) reap the benefits) ever since I heard the name Purple Haze I of course thought it was a type of ganj. Just listen to the song by Jimi Hendrix, to a pothead, of course it sounds like he's talking about his favorite strain. I mean come on:

Purple haze all in my brain,
Lately things just don't seem the same,
Actin' funny, but I don't know why,
'scuse me while I kiss the sky,
Purple haze all around,
Dont know if Im comin up or down,
Am I happy or in misery?
What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me

The words just wreak of bud. Haze, kissing the sky, coming up or down. He even mentions a girl, suggesting a female plant. Hell, he even coughs right at the beginning of the song.

Well, like I said, my uncle is a botanist and a grower. He's also an old hippie with a few old hippie friends. They were the first people to set me straight about the 'ole Purple Haze myth. I saw an old locked poll on these forums regarding kush and purple haze. In the poll everyone was fighting over whether Purple Haze is extinct or not, well, with all due respect to everyone, you're all wrong.

Contrary to highly popular belief regarding cannabis strains, Purple Haze is simply slang for a number of genetic crossbreeds of a purple strain and original Haze, such as Purple Star x Haze #1, Purple #1 x Haze #1, or Purple Skunk x Haze #1. Purple strains are often misidentified as purple haze due to the high popularity it gained due to the song by Jimi Hendrix. In fact, the term "haze" was not used to identify marijuana until the strain was bred in 1970. Purple Haze does not necessarily mean high quality, and the term is often used by dealers to distinguish their product. In concept, there is no original Purple Haze strain.

Purple haze refers to a specific LSD blotter created by Owsley Stanley. In a High Times Magazine article by Bruce Eisner from January 1977, Eisner reports to have interviewed Tim Scully, one of the miscreants involved in creating the LSD. According to Scully, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, began to manufacture LSD in Los Angeles in 1965. It was legal then. Owsley's LSD came in 270 microgram tablets of purple (Purple Haze) and white (White Lightning). LSD became illegal in 1966 and Owsley was arrested in 1967.

Many speculate that the 1967 song of the same name by Jimi Hendrix was named after this blotter paper or after the cannabis strain, but Jimi claims that the title of the song only had to do not with drugs but with a dream he had in which he was walking under the sea. In the dream, he said a purple haze surrounded him, engulfed him and got him lost. It was a traumatic experience, but in his dream his faith in Jesus saved him. While Hendrix claims the song is not drug related, the lyrics seem to vividly portray an intense acid trip.

I hope this dispels the rumors at least in this part of the smokers community. But print this out and give it to the next dealer who tries to pawn some purple beezers to be purple haze and he'll have to stand there just groovin on it.