LSD became illegal in 1966 and Owsley was arrested in 1967. Owsley's LSD came in 270 microgram tablets of purple (Purple Haze) and white (White Lightning). Citation | last=Eisner | first=Bruce | author-link=Bruce Eisner | title=LSD Purity: Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness | newspaper=High Times | date=January, 1977 | year=1977 | month=January | url= ] It was legal then. According to Scully, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, began to manufacture LSD in Los Angeles in 1965. cite book | author = Grunenberg, Christoph | year = 2006 | title = Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s | url = | chapter = "Protest and counterculture of the 1960s | pages = 44 | publisher = Liverpool University Press | isbn = 0853239290 | accessdate = ] 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. Purple Haze also referred to a specific LSD tablet created by Owsley Stanley. There are many strains of cannabis that have a purple look to them, and with cross-pollination one could theory grow a strain that is Purple Haze, well technically it would be PurplexHaze signnifying the cross between Haze and a purple dominant strain. Purple Haze is actually a glorified term that was adapted from the Jimi Hendrix song, which most believe was created about the "brand" of super potent LSD created by Owsley Stanley called "Monterey Purple" named for the Monterey Pop Festival at which Hendrix consumed before going onstage. It was however, originally used to describe a purple form of LSD.
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Purple Haze is a term used to describe a specific vividly purple strain of cannabis.
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Image_caption = "Notice the purple on the leaves"