History Main / DrugsAreGood

* "Highdelbeeren" by Austrian singer Wilfried. The text is very convoluted, possibly for GettingCrapPastTheRadar, but already the "high" should make clear he's not talking about huckleberries.

* ''Series/BarneyMiller'' had the detectives unintentionally ingesting hash baked into brownies by Wojo's girlfriend. It's played as cute and funny, and in Fish's case positively beneficial.

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''. Diane and Steven Freeling are shown smoking a marijuana cigarette together and having a great time.

** In a first season episode, the Roses eagerly accept a joint from the Schitts, who had presumed the posh Roses would be above it. Moira response by bragging that she and Johnny had friends and the FDA.

** When David and Patrick open their store, Jocelyn and Roland accuse David of running a front because the loose leaf tea is weed. David first denies it, but when it's clear that it is true, Roland and Jocelyn happily buy several bags.

* Subverted somewhat in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', in which Finch is able to track down the titular terrorist by "getting into his head"- i.e., taking LSD.
** That said, Creator/AlanMoore plays this straight in several of his works, especially his ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' run. The hallucinogenic tubers that grow out of the titular character's back help several characters achieve HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs, though it's suggested that the tubers act as more of a "cosmic litmus paper" that make life a living hell for any ''bad'' people who eat them.

* ''Series/MadMen'' has multiple examples of this. Peggy Olson lights up a joint more than once and always enjoys herself. Roger Sterling takes LSD, loves it, and tries to get his friends to do it too. (On the other hand, the series has always taken a dark view of [[TheAlcoholic alcohol abuse]].)

* In John Crowley's magic-realism novel ''Literature/LittleBig'', George Mouse owns a huge crumbling old New York townhouse with a basement full of commercially packaged [[http://www.trueamsterdam.com/wp-content/uploads/Nederhash.jpg hashish bars]]. The building had once housed a Lebanese grocery, at a time when hashish was sold legally and openly as penny candy.[[note]]If you live where pot is legal [[https://www.edrosenthal.com/the-guru-of-ganja-blog/4-ways-to-make-hashish-at-home you can make your own hash bars]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGm1Ssq9u2s relatively easily.]][[/note]] George also takes a drug called Pellucidar, probably a street drug like Ecstasy named after the [[Literature/{{Pellucidar}} Edgar Rice Burroughs stories]], which seems to be a mild stimulant enhancing perception, but has nasty after-effects.

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* In the hilarious TranslationTrainWreck ''JustForFun/PokemonVietnameseCrystal'', "Drugs" (aka Potions) heal a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s lost hit points.

Many {{Stoner Flick}}s are examples of this. OdeToIntoxication is the musical equivalent, if it's played straight. Related tropes include DrunkenMaster (getting drunk/stoned makes you better at something) and SmokingIsCool (which is about signaling a ''character'' is cool but does involve a positive portrayal of smoking).

* In states where medical and especially recreational marijuana are legal, you'll see highway billboards advertising dispensaries and shops. Some signs remind you that pot is good for pain and stress, some veteran-run shops use a military theme and talk about PTSD, etc. Weedmaps' [[https://weedmaps.com/weedfacts/ Weedfacts]] billboards present facts about legal pot to clear up misunderstanding.

* ''Film/KnivesOut'': Harlan, an 85-year-old man who gets a nightly morphine injection for pain, really enjoys morphine, and wonders why he waited until he was in his 80s to use it.

* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' talks about the delights of hashish, and claims he uses it to sleep at will. At the end he uses it to [[spoiler:heighten Maximilian's suicidal depression, before revealing that Valentine was still alive, so as to give Maximilian an understanding of his own happiness]].

* ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'': The show is full of drug use, and while the guys mostly just drink and smoke weed, they also take shrooms, and drop acid. They shy away from harder drugs (Adam says they're not his cup of tea), and Blake denounces huffing nitrous as 'hippy crack'. While the guys themselves are presented as losers, it doesn't have that much to do with their substance problems.

* Episode 1-4 of ''Series/ChappellesShow'' featured a parody of the TRUTH.com [[PublicServiceAnnouncement anti-smoking PSAs]] ("TRUF.com") in which the announcer says that cigarette smoking causes "feelings of euphoria, increased alertness, rises in short-term memory, and can have [[CigaretteOfAnxiety a calming effect on nerves]]."

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'', of all shows, plays this straight during Van Buren's cancer storyline. She initially refuses to use medical marijuana as she's aware of how professionally disastrous it would be for her if discovered. Then the Chief of Detectives, a cancer survivor himself, stops by to encourage her to use it, and says he'll look the other way as long as she's discreet.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD-8QXLq-ss Smokin' and Drinkin']]" by Music/MirandaLambert is a pot smoking song.

* ''Webcomic/AmongTheChosen'': Hardcore stimulants are used often and explicitly. It is implied that the Addicaine commanders have the option of using heavy duty combat drugs to bring their troops up to battle ready status.

* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': Bender brings some grass he had stashed in his school locker and the kids have an eighties montage over smoking it in the school library during detention.

* The [[TheSeventies 1971]] {{Documentary}} film ''Aphrodisiac: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana'' is a dramatization of the benefits of smoking marijuana. It chronicles how smoking pot improved the sex lives of many couples and the film also presents the medicinal benefits of marijuana.
* This dialog in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'':
--> '''Ty''': You take drugs, Danny?
--> '''Danny''': Every day.
--> '''Ty''': Good. Then what's your problem?
--> '''Danny''': I don't know.
* Subverted in ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet''. Jordan Belfort ''claims'' that drugs are totally awesome, and takes multiple pills and lines of different types a day. It's clear however that he's a just a common addict, and it even aids his own undoing when he's literally too drugged out to do any effective damage control once the authorities start investigating his illegal operations.
* It's very difficult to believe that ''Film/TheFaculty'' didn't promote a message like this. There are loads of things that can be a monstrous alien's downfall from AppliedPhlebotinum to WeaksauceWeakness, but what absolutely kills the vicious aliens that harbor goals of assimilation and replacement? Narcotics! Yep. Cleverly disguised as writing pens so you can use the drugs in class. What is the surefire way to tell that your friend hasn't been infected with an alien parasite in this movie? Why see if they can use drugs without dying of course.

* DenisLeary gave up every drug except his two favorites: beer and cigarettes (numm numm numm numm), with the occasional coffee on weekends. He brags that he smokes 7,000 packs a day, and will use his eventual tracheotomy to smoke two cigarettes at once (numm numm numm numm), and will rename himself Tracheotomy Man.

* In John Crowley's magic-realism novel ''Literature/LittleBig'', George Mouse owns a huge crumbling old New York townhouse with a basement full of commercially packaged [[http://www.trueamsterdam.com/wp-content/uploads/Nederhash.jpg hashish bars]]. The building had once housed a Lebanese grocery, at a time when hashish was sold legally and openly as penny candy.[[note]]If you live where pot is legal [[https://www.edrosenthal.com/the-guru-of-ganja-blog/4-ways-to-make-hashish-at-home you can make your own hash bars relatively easily.]][[/note]] George also takes a drug called Pellucidar, probably a street drug like Ecstasy named after the [[Literature/{{Pellucidar}} Edgar Rice Burroughs stories]], which seems to be a mild stimulant enhancing perception, but has nasty after-effects.

* In John Crowley's magic-realism novel ''Literature/LittleBig'', George Mouse owns a huge crumbling old New York townhouse with a basement full of commercially packaged [[http://www.trueamsterdam.com/wp-content/uploads/Nederhash.jpg hashish bars]]. The building had once housed a Lebanese grocery, at a time when hashish was sold legally and openly as penny candy.[[note]]If you live where pot is legal [[https://www.edrosenthal.com/the-guru-of-ganja-blog/4-ways-to-make-hashish-at-home you can make your own hash bars relatively easily.]][[/note]] George also takes a drug called Pellucidar, probably a street drug like Ecstasy named after the [[Literature/Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs stories]], which seems to be a mild stimulant enhancing perception, but has nasty after-effects.

* In John Crowley's magic-realism novel ''Literature/LittleBig'', George Mouse owns a huge crumbling old New York townhouse with a basement full of commercially packaged [[http://www.trueamsterdam.com/wp-content/uploads/Nederhash.jpg hashish bars]]. The building had once housed a Lebanese grocery, at a time when hashish was sold legally and openly as penny candy.[[note]]If you live where pot is legal [[https://www.edrosenthal.com/the-guru-of-ganja-blog/4-ways-to-make-hashish-at-home you can make your own hash bars relatively easily.]][[/note]]

* In John Crowley's magic-realism novel ''Literature/LittleBig'', George Mouse owns a huge crumbling old New York townhouse with a basement full of commercially packaged [[http://www.trueamsterdam.com/wp-content/uploads/Nederhash.jpg hashish bars]]. The building had once housed a Lebanese grocery, at a time when hashish was sold legally and openly as penny candy.[[note]]If you live where pot is legal [[https://www.edrosenthal.com/the-guru-of-ganja-blog/4-ways-to-make-hashish-at-home you can make your own hash bars relatively easily.]]

* Music/NeilYoung is (or was) a well-known stoner. His song "Flying on the Ground is Wrong" is about pot. In one of his acoustic concert monologues he gives the [[http://thrasherswheat.org/rns/honeyslides.htm recipe for honeyslides]], which he used to make his voice deeper for songs like "Motion Pictures". For years he smoked joints as if they were regular cigarettes. He quit, or cut way back, in 2011 after doctors detected pre-dementia changes in his brain.[[note]]He also stopped drinking after his daughter Amber decided she was an alcoholic and stopped drinking.[[/note]] He says "The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognise myself," so he looks everywhere for grounding. He still put out an album called ''Psychedelic Pill'' though. And of course he spent years working with Music/DavidCrosby, well known in the Los Angeles area for having (and selling) extremely powerful grass.

* In John Crowley's magic-realism novel ''Literature/LittleBig'', George Mouse owns a huge crumbling old New York townhouse with a basement full of commercially packaged [[http://www.trueamsterdam.com/wp-content/uploads/Nederhash.jpg hashish bars]]. The building had once housed a Lebanese grocery, at a time when hashish was sold legally and openly as penny candy.

* In states where medical and especially recreational marijuana are legal, you'll see highway billboards advertising dispensaries and shops. Some signs remind you that pot is good for pain and stress, some veteran-run shops use a military theme and talk about PTSD, etc.

* ''Webcomic/Persona2Win'': The main character constantly takes unidentified pills when he is angered (which is a lot) too keep himself from killing the idiots around him.
* Kinda-sorta in the case of Gamzee from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. If he isn't stoned off his gourd, he remembers that he's a descendant of the subjuggulators. And bad things happen.

As the title indicates, Drugs Are Good is the inverse of DrugsAreBad. This trope is for instances in fiction and creative works where the use of drugs and alcohol is portrayed in a positive light. Drugs Are Good is most frequently seen with cigarettes and alcohol, which have always been more or less socially acceptable. It also may accompany depictions of marijuana use, given the common perception of marijuana as a less harmful drug than other illegal drugs. Invocations of Drugs Are Good with harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin are rarer, but not unknown; both drugs used to be legal and used medicinally and recreationally until the 1920s. LSD can sometimes be depicted as such, where it's used as [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs a tool for greater understanding]] and making things look more colorful.

** ''Tomorrow's Starlight'' details a character experiencing a very pleasant trip at a concert and most of the characters use drugs and alcohol frequently.

* In John Crowley's magic-realism novel ''Literature/LittleBig'', George Mouse owns a huge crumbling old New York townhouse with a basement full of commercially packaged hashish bars. The building had once housed a Lebanese grocery, at a time when hashish was sold legally and openly as penny candy.