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Purple Haze is a term used to describe a specific vividly purple strain of cannabis. It was however, originally used to describe a purple form of LSD.
Purple Haze also referred to a specific LSD tablet created by Owsley Stanley.[1] In a High Times Magazine article by Bruce Eisner from January 1977, Eisner reports to have actually interviewed Tim Scully, one of the men involved in creating the LSD. According to Scully, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, began to manufacture LSD in Los Angeles in 1965.[2] 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.
[edit] Jimi Hendrix song
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 that was inspired partly by the science-fiction novel Night of Light by Philip Jose Farmer, which used the term, a "purplish haze." 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.[3]
[edit] Other uses
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 in the United States.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Grunenberg, Christoph (2006). ""Protest and counterculture of the 1960s", Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s. Liverpool University Press, 44. ISBN 0853239290. Retrieved on 2008-05-13.
- ^ Eisner, Bruce (January, 1977), “LSD Purity: Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness”, High Times, <http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_writings1.shtml>
- ^ Purple Haze: Jimi Hendrix : Rolling Stone
- ^ Associated Press. "Pot-flavored candy takes a licking", MSNBC.com, June 25, 2005. Retrieved on 2006-05-10.
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