History Main / MarijuanaIsLSD

* 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. The same thing happens to Trevor as well, 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 smoke pot in his house a get a more mundane high.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'', ''raisins'' are like LSD... [[ShapedLikeItself ON ACID]]!

Marijuana is one of the less potent psychoactive drugs. It causes euphoria, thirst, hunger and occasionally paranoia, and it can also cause your thought processes to become one long string of FridgeLogic and/or [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Brilliant]] moments (which may or may not be remembered once the effects wear off). It also takes a little while to get used to it--often, people doing it their first time don't feel any effects at all. Even very high doses won't cause hallucinations in 99% of the population.

It is worth mentioning that large doses of marijuana can produce hallucinations in some people. The array of effects experienced from any dose vary considerably from person to person. Research into this effect may be partly responsible for the myth, along with journalists that ignored how large a dose the "psychonauts" used and what counts as a hallucination to experimental psychologists. Also, even those who regularly ''smoke'' cannabis may experience unexpectedly strong effects when ''vaporizing'' it, which is a more efficient method of administration. When ''eating'' it, it can take a long time to kick in, so a common mistake is to eat too much because it seems to have little effect - only to find oneself extremely inebriated for half a day when the full effects come on. Such an overdose can cause visual and auditory hallucinations, but those are not enjoyable at all and often combined with panic attacks, nausea and so forth. Hallucinations remain unlikely, but judgement and driving will be impaired. A person who has consumed enough marijuana to experience hallucinations is unlikely to be able to walk on two feet, let alone drive, so anyone who would have [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink consumed it unwittingly]] would have called an ambulance at this point and not go on a wacky drug-fueled adventure.

Another cause of this trope may be that the medium lacks the ability to portray intoxication from a first-person perspective accurately while also not making the intoxication seem much less powerful than it is. There are many drugs that have subtle and/or mild visual or auditory effects, if any at all, making it very difficult to portray the severity of a high dose accurately. Maybe it helps to think of the effects as metaphors.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJdVEoVbgg&feature=related This PSA]] If your dog is talking to you, chances are you have more than weed in your system.

* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', [[FantasticDrug smurfnip]] is treated like marijuana with this trope. Notably in "Smurfnip Madness", Smurfette's hallucinations while under the influence include seeing Vexy and Hackus from ''Film/TheSmurfs2''. Also in the story, Handy created [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual a special pair of glasses]] that simulate the visual effects of being under the influence of smurfnip. In "A Haunted Christmas", Nabby eats his stash of smurfnip during a village famine and starts having MeatOVision. Mostly averted in "The New Shop In The Village", since at the time Empath as the new Smurf Village leader has legalized smurfnip, a new strain of the plant has been developed that produces only the high but not also the hallucinations.

* ''Film/HalfBaked'' uses this trope, but at least it only seems to apply to the ''really good shit'' Thurgood gets from the government lab. Semi-justified in that it is so good that other people can see your hallucinations too.

* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': After being teleported from the woods to a ritzy hotel, Jay tells Silent Bob that the weed has kicked in. Strangely enough, this trope is also subverted from an earlier scene where Loki gets high with Jay and Silent Bob but he exhibits normal symptoms, that being confusion and slow thinking.

* Author Creator/JTEdson was violently opposed to marijuana and any time it is portrayed in his novels, it is shown in a negative light. However, he also appears to have no idea of what its effects actually are, and it is portrayed as everything from a date rape drug to driving people into a beserk frenzy like PCP.

* There's an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' which parodies this--Martin eats a hash brownie, not realising what it is, realises he's stoned after a short period of time, and then starts to ''think'' he's hallucinating when he sees a video in which Eddie, the dog, appears to be speaking. The video is actually a mock-up commercial, introduced in another subplot, that overdubs Eddie with his mouth moving with Frasier's voice.

** In the same episode, Niles ate a normal brownie which he thought was a hash-brownie and started showing the symptoms of being stoned at once until he was made aware of the mistake, at which point he instantly "sobered-up".

* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', Jesse sees two men in white shirts who want to talk to him about Jesus as hulking, leather-clad thugs with machetes and hand grenades after smoking methamphetamine. Possibly justified, since he could have gone a long period without sleep or began to suffer from stimulant psychosis, both meth-related issues that cause hallucinations.
** Definitively justified. Meth can cause Hallucinations even without lack of sleep. Alternately, it could have just been a visual representation of meth-induced paranoia.

* In ''Series/{{Community}}'', the pill Star-Burns gives Pierce during a Halloween party has Pierce acting like he's rolling on ecstasy...then he starts hallucinating Annie making cracks about his age as talking calaveras fly around. That he was also mixing this with his regular prescriptions (of which he had lost track and was taking random doses) probably contributed.

* In the opening of an episode of ''Series/{{House}}'', the soon-to-be patient of the week is a priest who hears a knock at his door. When he answers he sees a floating Jesus complete with stigmata and crown of thorns. Later in the episode Dr. Hatley chalks this up to the single highball of liquor the man consumed just before.

* Inverted in ''SamAndMax 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]].

[[caption-width-right:300:And it's ''medicinal'' marijuana, no less![[note]]Context available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTI1__LAr7s here.]] ]]

[[caption-width-right:300:And it's ''medicinal'' marijuana, no less!]]

* According to the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "Saturday Lost," marijuana makes you hallucinate vividly, speak in pseudo-poetic nonsense, experience such extreme time dilation that 110 mph feels like a standstill, and possibly develop temporary amnesia.

* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', [[FantasticDrug smurfnip]] is treated like marijuana with this trope. Notably in "Smurfnip Madness", Smurfette's hallucinations while under the influence include seeing Vexy and Hackus from ''Film/TheSmurfs2''. Also in the story, Handy created [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual a special pair of glasses]] that simulate the visual effects of being under the influence of smurfnip. In "A Haunted Christmas", Nabby eats his stash of smurfnip during a village famine and starts having MeatOVision. Mostly averted in "The New Shop In The Village", since at the time Empath as its new village leader has legalized smurfnip, a new strain of the plant has been developed that produces only the high but not also the hallucinations.

* ''Film/{{Friday}}'': Subverted with Smokey's flashback as that weed was laced with angel dust (PCP). Played straight with Craig though- he experiences auditory hallucinations ("You hear my phone ring?" and when the dog figurines begin to whine) and full-blown auditory and visual hallucinations when he sees Big Worm's head in his cabinet and it begins talking to him.

* ''Film/Dogma'': After being teleported from the woods to a ritzy hotel, Jay tells Silent Bob that the weed has kicked in. Strangely enough, this trope is also subverted from an earlier scene where Loki gets high with Jay and Silent Bob but he exhibits normal symptoms, that being confusion and slow thinking.
* ''Film/Friday'': Subverted with Smokey's flashback as that weed was laced with angel dust (PCP). Played straight with Craig though- he experiences auditory hallucinations ("You hear my phone ring?" and when the dog figurines begin to whine) and full-blown auditory and visual hallucinations when he sees Big Worm's head in his cabinet and it begins talking to him.

* In the opening of an episode of {{House}}, the soon-to-be patient of the week is a priest who hears a knock at his door. When he answers he sees a floating Jesus complete with stigmata and crown of thorns. Later in the episode Dr. Hatley chalks this up to the single highball of liquor the man consumed just before.

* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', [[FantasticDrug smurfnip]] is treated like marijuana with this trope. Notably in "Smurfnip Madness", Smurfette's hallucinations while under the influence include seeing Vexy and Hackus from ''Film/TheSmurfs2''. Also in the story, Handy created [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual a special pair of glasses]] that simulate the visual effects of being under the influence of smurfnip. In "A Haunted Christmas", Nabby eats his stash of smurfnip during a village famine and starts having MeatOVision.

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[[caption-width-right:300:And it's ''medicinal'' marijuana, no less!]]

* In the opening of an episode of {{House}}, the soon-to-be patient of the week is a priest who hears a knock at his door. When he answers he sees a floating Jesus complete with stigmata and crown of thorns. Later in the episode Dr. Hatley chalks this up to ''the single highball of liquor'' the man consumed just before. [[SarcasmMode Differential diagnosis?]]

** There is also ''spiked'' marijuana floating around. Some unscrupulous drug dealers (which aren't very scrupulous group to begin with) put other drugs in their weed so as the get people hooked on them. Hallucinogens are one of the more common drugs seen in the capacity.

* ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'': [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=037.jpg SUDDENLY WEED DREAMS]]. [-poofl-] Considering [[StylisticSuck what comic we're talking about]], it was probably intentionally invoked.

** And strangely enough, about 75% justified. PartyDown is pretty good about portraying drugs realistically and it's specifically mentioned that Roman ingested about a tenth of an ounce of high-grade marijuana. For someone not accustomed to the effects of marijuana, eating that much certainly could make one feel as if they were going out of their mind. The other 25% is RuleOfFunny.

* In ''PartyDown'', Roman eats multiple pot brownies without realizing they're laced. He curls up in the bathroom and calls for an ambulance, because he is either dead or soon will be. After the paramedics show up, the hippie fellow who baked the brownies leads Roman on a journey to meet his spirit animal and Roman writes a screenplay (on the toilet paper). The paramedics take him to the hospital, not because he's overdosing on pot, but because they've never seen anyone that high before and want to show the nurses.

* One LouisCK story involved him overdosing on weed (as he forgot that modern weed is vastly more potent than the stuff he smoked in his teenage years), and proceeded to have a very unpleasant experience.

* In the early 1900s, absinthe was LSD. It was blamed for corrupting children and causing criminal behavior and loose morals, the usual. In reality, absinthe is no more apt to be psychedelic than any other alcoholic drink. The ''amount'' in which it was consumed, on the other hand, was often more than enough to cause the alcohol psychosis. Remember that absinthe's heyday had come after the phylloxera outbreak, which made wine (the drink of choice for most of the affected population) scarce and expensive, so absinthe has come to be used as a substitute, and was drank accordingly — despite being up to ''seven'' times more potent than common wines. Even when diluted, it was usually drunk with the copious amounts of sugar that masked its extremely high alcohol content.