History Main / MarijuanaIsLSD

** Another episode features men in town deliberately getting testicular cancer (by putting their balls in the microwave) in order to be able to legally buy marijuana from the local seller. The same episode had the local KFC restaurant shut down, resulting in all the kids going into KFC withdrawal and Cartman running a KFC ring by importing take-out from another town. Naturally, StatusQuoIsGod, and the marijuana store once again becomes a KFC restaurant at the end. Interestingly, the episode doesn't really show any ill effects from the drug. Instead, it's the ''length'' that the men go through in order to be able to buy it is over-the-top.

DeanBitterman or the DotingParent is tricked or cajoled into smoking up, or more likely eating a pot brownie. Five minutes later, they're [[MushroomSamba riding a unicorn through a rainbow]], or arguing with the plants, or [[DisneyAcidSequence being chased by musical notes in time to the background music]]. Expect to hear Music/{{Steppenwolf}}'s "Magic Carpet Ride" or "White Rabbit" by Music/JeffersonAirplane. It's almost as if they've taken a powerful hallucinogen. Yes, in their universe, marijuana is LSD.

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, and from one strain of the plant to another. (For example, ''sativa'' plants give you a stimulating head high while ''indica'' gives you a relaxing body high, and hybrids can give you the best of both.) Research into the former 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 are 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 would not go on a wacky drug-fueled adventure.

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** In "Weekend At Burnsie's", Homer is given medical marijuana for his eye injuries. He sees a number of Beatles-esque hallucinations, mostly everything smiling at him (including his razor) and any flowing liquid (like his blood from cutting himself shaving) as rainbows.
** In "The Good, The Sad, And The Drugly", Lisa becomes completely stoned and begins hallucinating smiley faces everywhere, culminating in her almost making out with an electric fan. Her drug of choice? Anti-depressants.

* Justified in one case of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', where the marijuana that drove a manor full of society elites into a murderous frenzy is said to have been laced with something far more dangerous.

** Homer is given medical marijuana for his eye injuries. He sees a number of Beatles-esque hallucinations, mostly everything smiling at him (including his razor) and any flowing liquid (like his blood from cutting himself shaving) as rainbows.
** In another episode, Lisa becomes completely stoned and begins hallucinating smiley faces everywhere, culminating in her almost making out with an electric fan. Her drug of choice? Anti-depressants.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', the episode where Peter and Lois had a band. They used Marijuana as the group's muse and it doesn't take much to get them completely baked, rolling on the floor and moaning nonsense (while thinking that they were singing a great song while unicorns danced in the background). They had similar trips throughout out the episode, another of which involved them licking Chris under the hallucination that he was a sundae. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the series' pot-centric episode, "420."

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, and from one strain of the plant to another. (For example, ''sativa'' plants give you a stimulating head high while ''indica'' gives you a relaxing body high.) Research into the former 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 are 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 would not go on a wacky drug-fueled adventure.

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, and from one strain of the plant to another. Research into the former 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 are 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 would not go on a wacky drug-fueled adventure.

* ''Film/EuroTrip'' had the group visit Amsterdam. During a visit to the bakery, they started hallucinating wildly only to be snapped back when told by the waiter that [[FakeHigh they were eating just regular brownies]].

* Parodied in ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'', when Duke and Gonzo - both heavy drug users - sit in on a drug panel by a KnowNothingKnowItAll. See below under Literature for more.

* ''Film/ReeferMadness'', in which marijuana is like acid laced with speed. Not surprising given that it's an anti-marijuana propaganda piece. This is kept in TheMusical [[Film/ReeferMadnessTheMusical remake]], although now all exaggerations are played purely for laughs.

[[caption-width-right:320:And it's ''medicinal'' marijuana, no less![[note]]Context available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTI1__LAr7s here.]] [[/note]] ]]

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

* 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 smoke pot in his house a get a more mundane high.

Continuing on this trend, often when the effects of LSD are shown, they are powerfully overstated. Even on low doses, characters will experience detailed hallucinations and Datura-esque delusions, when in reality a single tab of LSD will usually only give someone visual distortions that are readily distinguished from reality.

* In the early 1900s, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe 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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera#Fighting_the_.22phylloxera_plague.22 phylloxera outbreak of 1863]], 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.

** As if he'd never heard of a pot brownie[[note]]Considering he was born in 1868, he may well not have depending on how young he was when he tried this out![[/note]]

* According to ''Doctor Wood, Modern Wizard of the Laboratory'', Robert Wood (patron saint of EducationThroughPyrotechnics) in his youth once tested whether it's true that cannabis is hallucinogenic ''when ingested''--for the sake of experiment and because, well, there weren't any reports of fatal poisoning or something. It was. Most memorable scenes of this [[strike:trip report]] "experiment summary" involved turning into a fox whose eyes were inside the mouth and being scared shitless by a two-faced doll.
** As if he'd never heard of a pot brownie.

* ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'''s drunk sequence looks like this to many modern audiences, but it's actually just PinkElephants made literal.

* In ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' the speaker at the drug conference seems to have no idea of what pot actually does. Much lampshaded by Duke and Dr. Gonzo, who are quite familiar with several different drugs.