Editing Jimi Hendrix (section)

===LSD and other substances===
{{quote box|Like most acid-heads, Jimi had visions and he wanted to create music to express what he saw. He would try to explain this to people, but it didn't make sense because it was not linked to reality in any way.|source= — [[Kathy Etchingham]]{{sfn|Shadwick|2003|p=110}}|width=25em|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}

Roby and Schreiber assert that Hendrix first used [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]] when he met Linda Keith in late 1966. Shapiro and Glebbeek, however, contends that Hendrix used it in June 1967 at the earliest while attending the Monterey Pop Festival.<ref>{{harvnb|Roby|Schreiber|2010|pp=156, 182}}; {{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=148}}.</ref> According to Hendrix biographer Charles Cross, the subject of drugs came up one evening in 1966 at Keith's New York apartment. One of Keith's friends offered Hendrix "acid", a street name for LSD, but Hendrix asked for LSD instead, showing what Cross describes as "his naivete and his complete inexperience with psychedelics".{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=132}} Before that, Hendrix had only sporadically used drugs, including [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]], [[hashish]], [[Substituted amphetamine|amphetamines]], and occasionally [[cocaine]].{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=132}} After 1967, he regularly used cannabis, hashish, LSD, and amphetamines, particularly while touring.{{sfn|Redding|Appleby|1996|pp=60, 113}} According to Cross, "few stars were as closely associated with the drug culture as Jimi".{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=335}}