History Main / MarijuanaIsLSD

** However, this is averted in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS31E17HighwayToWell Highway to Well]]", where Marge takes some of the marijuana she had been selling and experiences a more realistic effect where she finds herself in a panicked state with weird sensations and vision depth-of-field issues.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', there is a "Freaks" mission that Michael can take on where he comes across a man trying to get marijuana legalized in San Andreas, and keeps insisting Michael, a man who typically only smokes cigars, to try his "home grown" joint. Upon reluctantly doing so, Michael suddenly goes into a bad trip where he is ''shooting aliens with a minigun'' (which is fully playable). After the trip ends Michael tells the marijuana guy to screw off and says he'll never try a joint ever again. Trevor is also offered a joint, and after initially refusing because weed "interferes with the speed" already in his system, has a similar trip, only with clowns instead of aliens. Franklin however is unaffected since he's already a habitual pot smoker. Somewhat averted, however, in that it is clearly indicated (by the more experienced Franklin) that the pot in question has been doctored in some fashion (but one must play the optional mission in order to find this out), as Michael can take a hit from his son's bong and get a more mundane high.

* ''Film/TheRoom'': In a scene recalling ''Film/ReeferMadness'', normally cool-headed Mark becomes uncharacteristically violent and belligerent after taking a couple hits from a joint, holding a supporting character against the edge of a rooftop. Fits in with the recurring theme of the film that DrugsAreBad.

May be a case of research failure, especially in older works. Seldom played straight in recent decades, but there are exceptions. Often overlaps with ScareEmStraight. {{Subtrope}} of GRatedDrug.

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* Averted in ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert''. Whenever the protagonist and Kathy smoke weed, they don’t hallucinate one bit.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Largely played straight when Stan and Roger accidentally breathe in smoke from a burning marijuana farm. Roger insists that he must carry a heavy bag or else he’ll float into the air... which ''actually happens'' when he does let go.

* Inverted in ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max Season 2: Moai Better Blues]]'', where basalt is said to make [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Moai]] 'turn on, tune in and drop out' (a phrase associated with LSD). If you feed one of the Moai basalt, he claims that he's hallucinating, but otherwise just acts giggly and stoned. He also exhales stone dust in a way that looks like smoke, Sam jokingly calls him 'Cheech', and Max teases him for being a lightweight by not holding it in for more than a few seconds. [[FantasticDrug Obviously this is]] [[RuleOfFunny justifiable, though]].

* Uniquely reversed by ''Film/{{Skidoo}}'': The film's climax involves spiking the food supply of a prison with LSD as part of an escape plan. However, [[CriticalResearchFailure only one member of the cast or crew had actually had any experience with the drug]] ([[spoiler:Creator/GrouchoMarx's final film credit]]), and they weren't anywhere near that sequence. So, lacking any sort of direction, everyone settled for either acting ''drunk'', or [[LargeHam trying to compensate with volume]]. How they got Timothy Leary to endorse that is a mystery.

* ''Film/ClassOfNukeEmHigh'' has an excuse for this--the marijuana was grown [[ILoveNuclearPower next to the nuclear power plant]].

* In ''Literature/BubblesInSpace'', there's an even worse example with alcohol. Bubbles is annoyed that her friends assume she's been drinking when she finds a very much alive previously thought dead fiance of her friend. She points out booze does not work like this and Bubbles has been keeping to her sobriety well.

** However, this is averted in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS31E17HighwayToWell Highway to Well]]", where Marge takes some of the marijuana she had been selling and experiences a more realistic effect where she finds herself in a panicked state with weird sensations and vision deep-of-field issues.