Purple Haze (marijuana)

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Purple Haze is a common street name for marijuana that has predominately purple (as opposed to green) calyxes or flowers. The term is taken from the Jimi Hendrix song of the same name. Various commercial strains are sold today under the name Purple Haze but are not likely closely genetically related and may not have similar characteristics other than having a purple appearance.

Purple Haze is also the brand name of a marijuana-flavored lollipop available as a novelty candy at some convenience stores. The lollipop is flavored with hemp oil, which imparts the taste of marijuana without the high, but the candy has still been criticized by anti-drug advocates.[1]

Purple Haze also refers to a specific LSD blotter created by Owsley Stanley.

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  1. ^ Associated Press. "Pot-flavored candy takes a licking", MSNBC.com, June 25, 2005. Retrieved on May 10, 2006.