History Main / TheAggressiveDrugDealer

* It's an urban myth that pimps do this to keep their prostitutes from leaving them, simply because purchasing drugs eats into their profits. However, there are plenty of prostitutes who work to support a drug habit. It's also possible for someone to be both a pimp and a drug dealer at the same time, and if any of the prostitutes working for said person were addicted to the drugs they were selling it could certainly appear as if it were a deliberate action on the part of the pimp, regardless of how it had actually occurred.
* Undercover narcotics officers will sometimes act like this to try to catch users in the act of buying drugs. However, since actual users and real dealers (at least, those that don't take their own product, as mentioned above) are too smart to fall for this, the officers often target high schoolers or first-time users for an easy arrest, which brings up serious questions about the effectiveness of the war on drugs, and the exact definition of entrapment.
* Every Halloween, news channels will inevitably run a story on drug-laced candy/drugs disguised as candy, and how parents should beware that these things could wind up in their children's trick-or-treat bags. There are ''no'' recorded cases of this happening in real life. (There are cases of drugs being disguised as candy, but it was sellers trying to hide their wares, not giving them away to children.) Not only are drugs way too expensive to give away en masse, but even if a child got hooked and wanted more, they'd have no way of knowing who the dealer was. So basically, such a dealer would be blowing hundreds of dollars just ForTheEvulz of assuming some unknown kids will get high.
** In most or all alleged cases, the child victim found the drugs within their own home, and trick-or-treating was just a convenient scapegoat (more tragically, [[OffingTheOffspring this also applies]] to [[TrickedToDeath poisoned candy]]).
* Somewhat to the surprise of law enforcement trying to catch them, modern dealers of heroin would actually give free doses to certain customers if they didn't have the money to pay at that time. Notably, though this is only ''partly'' to keep them addicted (see ''Dreamland''); it's also both for the safety of themselves and their customer, since severe withdrawal symptoms can be fatal (dealers are very much interested in keeping their customers alive to keep buying from them, after all) and particularly desperate customers are also more likely to try and rob or attack their dealers.
* And of course there's the time-honoured tactic of offering a huge introductory discount only to jack up the price afterwards, entrapping anyone who failed to ReadTheFinePrint, which works even better for addictive narcotics than it does for the stuff you can legally hawk in an infomercial.
* There's also the method of spiking relatively mild drugs, like marijuana or even alcohol, with more intense and addictive ones, like PCP or better yet some designer cocktail only they sell. Not exactly forcing straight edge kids to become addicts, but it is tricking casual drug users into becoming full-blown addicts.
* This trope is part of the reason for the disappearance and decommissioning of [[UsefulNotes/PayPhone payphones]], besides them being [[TechnologyMarchesOn superseded by cell phones]]. According to UrbanLegend, drug dealers would loiter around public telephones, both waiting for "customers" to call them, and trying to lure in new customers by offering drugs. However, there are [[DeadUnicornTrope no reliable reports of dealers ever having done this]], even back in the days before cell phones were widely available, and it certainly wouldn't make much sense. Loitering around a payphone for hours and hours each day does, after all, look suspicious, and (this being the thing everyone apparently missed) looking suspicious is exactly what drug dealers ''don't'' want.
* This sort of attitude was a major cause for the opioid epidemic, with pharmaceutical companies bribing doctors into prescribing opioid medications to patients who didn't need such powerful painkillers, or prescribing them to people who did need them but in amounts so large that no human could take them as prescribed without becoming addicted.

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A DeadHorseTrope born from the DARE programs, [=PSAs=] and {{very special episode}}s of the early [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnDrugs War on Drugs]]. The Aggressive Drug Dealer is out there trying to ''force'' your kids into doing drugs. He won't take casual avoidance for an answer, intimidating or even attacking his targets until they take a hit. So a type of training is required to "Just Say No".

This just isn't how it happens. No drug dealer in their right mind would risk attracting attention to themselves that way, especially not in the [[{{Suburbia}} middle-class environments]] these commercials are aimed at. Any who do so will get caught very quickly, and be far less likely to actually get any customers. The same way children are more likely to be abducted/molested by someone already in their lives than a stranger, they're far more likely to do drugs with their peers than some shadowy figure lurking in the playground. Most drug users have their first taste at a party or some other social setting where the substance is being shared and they give it a try. From there, if they want more, they'll seek out the dealer themselves. Furthermore, despite (and some would argue because of) government policy, the market for illegal drugs was and remains quite healthy throughout the world; the Aggressive Drug Dealer has little reason to waste time trying to bully unwilling people into becoming their customers when there are almost certainly lots of willing customers out there.

So while the "just say no" narrative would make perfect sense in a social setting, where there might actually be pressure to take them in order to look "cool" to one's peers, the problem was that an anti-peer pressure message would wind up contradicting the prevailing ideology held by MoralGuardians at the time: that deviant behavior arose from [[LonersAreFreaks anti-social tendencies]], and since such "bad kids" are a shunned minority, bowing to peer pressure must if anything be a ''[[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong good thing]]''! Not only that, any such [=PSAs=] would also break the illusion any child might have had that their parents are a bastion of safety and morality. In the strict household hierarchy of yesteryear, that last point in particular was a huge no-no.

The only option left, then, was to fabricate this villain. "Talking to your kids" by [[ScareEmStraight scaring them]] with this nightmare was a lot easier than trying to understand the social environment one's child was in, and instilling values that would stand up and that parents agreed with. It's much easier to demonize an evil outsider inexplicably hell-bent on getting Little Johnny hooked to drugs than to talk about the fact that the people who are ''actually'' likely to encourage him to try will be his friends and peers.

In this day and age, if a drug dealer is represented as "aggressive" in media, he will most probably be of the "[[AxCrazy shoot it out with the police and anybody who pisses him off]]" variety instead... who are, quite unfortunately, TruthInTelevision and have always been (e.g. Pablo Escobar, the Sinaloa Cartel, etc). Although even that can be exaggerated, as many drug dealers prefer to live, obviously -- something that kind of behavior doesn't really encourage (if this happens, they're usually cornered, preferring death over prison, [[CrooksAreBetterArmed already are holding a good hand]] and/or are high themselves--[[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply possibly on their own drug]]).

* Subverted in a public service announcement. The aggressive drug dealer turns out to be a trusted adult who was role-playing with the kid.

* ''Advertising/SupermanVsNickOTeen'' pitted ComicBook/{{Superman}} against a villain called [[PunnyName Nick O'Teen]] who acted like this in trying to get kids to smoke cigs. He had a top hat coloured to look like a cigarette butt and yellow teeth. Nick O'Teen tries to get children to smoke cigarettes because... he's evil! Note that he never sells the cigarettes or demands money for them, he just hands them over.

* Played straight in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j53oTk5bsbk early 90s Drug-Free America PSA]]. It depicts a young boy named Kevin running through a rough neighborhood on his way home. Kevin narrates about how at school, his teacher tells kids to "just say no". He points out that his teacher doesn't have to walk home through the same neighborhood that he does. And while the local dealers may be afraid of the police, Kevin says, "they're not scared of me, and they sure don't take 'no' for an answer".

* ''VideoGame/BioShock'': Frank Fontaine was a variant. After discovering [=ADAM=], a [[FantasticDrug horrendously addictive substance that gives the user superpowers]], he starts marketing it to Rapture's populace. He never ''forces'' people to take the drug, but given all the things [=ADAM=] can let you do, and how one side effect of [=ADAM=] overuse is violent insanity, eventually even people who didn't want to take the drug had to splice themselves in order to fend off other splicers, meaning that they also had to come to Fontaine. Of course, the brutal civil war brewing because of Ryan's descent into tyranny didn't help matters any.

** Then there was the VerySpecialEpisode two-parter that had the Joes and Cobras team up in an EnemyMine scenario against an eeevilll drug dealer known as the Headman, who dressed like the Hamburglar and had gotten family members of both Joes and Cobras hooked on his stuff. Apparently, drugs are so bad that even an organization committed to genocidal acts of terrorism which once created a clone made from the DNA of Genghis Khan and Hitler will gladly embark on a crusade to stop them. (Note: this was a RecycledScript from the ''C.O.P.S.'' example above.)

* Undercover narcotics officers will sometimes act like this to try to catch users in the act of buying drugs. However, since actual users and real dealers (at least, those that don't take their own product, as mentioned a few points above) are too smart to fall for this, undercover officers often target high schoolers or first-time users for an easy arrest, which brings up serious questions about the effectiveness of the war on drugs, and the exact definition of entrapment.
* Every Halloween, news channels will inevitably run a story on drug-laced candy/drugs disguised as candy, and how parents should beware that these things could wind up in their children's trick-or-treat bags. There are ''no'' recorded cases of this happening in real life. (There are cases of drugs being disguised as candy, but it was sellers trying to hide their product, not giving them away to children.) Not only are drugs way too expensive to give away en masse, but even if a child got hooked and wanted more, they'd have no way of knowing who the dealer was. So basically, such a dealer would be blowing hundreds of dollars just to get some unknown kids high ForTheEvulz.
** In most or all alleged cases, the supposed recipient found the drugs a lot closer to home, and trick-or-treating was just a convenient scapegoat (more tragically, [[OffingTheOffspring this also applies]] to [[TrickedToDeath poisoned candy]]).

* There's also the classic tactic of spiking relatively mild drugs, like marijuana or even alcohol, with more intense and addictive ones, like PCP or better yet some designer cocktail only they sell. Not exactly forcing straight edge kids to become addicts, but it is tricking casual drug users into becoming full-blown addicts.

* UsefulNotes/TheOpiumWars: British merchants were selling lots of opium in China, but the Chinese government then banned it, so Britain ''declared war'' to force China to allow opium. (There were also other provocations & factors, but that was the main goal.) It doesn't get any more aggressive than bringing in an army to help with drug dealing.

A DeadHorseTrope born from the DARE programs, [=PSAs=] and {{very special episode}}s of the early [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnDrugs War on Drugs]]. The Aggressive Drug Dealer is out there trying to ''force'' your kids into doing drugs. He won't take casual avoidance for an answer, intimidating or even attacking his targets until they take a hit. So a type of training is required to [[CatchPhrase "Just Say No".]]

A [[DeadHorseTrope trope of yesteryear]], born from TheEighties' DARE programs and resulting commercials, "inspirational films," and {{very special episode}}s from the early [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnDrugs War on Drugs]]. The Aggressive Drug Dealer is out there trying to ''force'' your kids into doing drugs. He won't take casual avoidance for an answer and will seek out and use intimidation just to coerce his target. So a type of training is required to [[CatchPhrase "Just Say No".]]

This just isn't how it happens. No drug dealer in their right mind would risk attracting attention to themselves that way, especially not in the [[{{Suburbia}} middle-class environments]] these commercials are aimed at. Any who do so will get caught very quickly, and be far less likely to actually get any customers. The same way children are more likely to be abducted/molested by someone already in their lives than a stranger, they're far more likely to do drugs with their peers than some shadowy figure lurking in the playground. Most drug users have their first taste at a party or some other social setting where the substance is being shared and they give it a try. From there, if they want more, they'll seek out the dealer themselves. Furthermore, it must also be noted that despite (and several would argue because of) government policy, the market for illegal drugs was and remains quite healthy throughout the world; the Aggressive Drug Dealer has little reason to waste time trying to bully unwilling people into becoming their customers when there are almost certainly lots more willing customers eager to buy their product.

So while the "just say no" narrative would make perfect sense in a social setting, where there might actually be pressure to take them in order to look "cool" to one's peers, the problem was, an anti-peer pressure approach to [=PSAs=] would wind up contradicting the prevailing ideology held by MoralGuardians at the time: that deviant behavior arose from [[LonersAreFreaks anti-social tendencies]], and since surely such "bad kids" are a shunned minority, bowing to peer pressure must if anything be a ''[[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong good thing]]''! Not only that, any such [=PSAs=] would also break the illusion any child might have had that their parents are a bastion of safety and morality. In the strict household hierarchy of yesteryear, that last point in particular was a huge ''no-no''.

The only option left, then, was to fabricate this villain. "Talking to your kids" by [[ScareEmStraight scaring them]] with this nightmare was a lot easier than trying to understand the social environment one's child was in, and instilling values that would stand up and that parents agreed with. It's much easier to demonize an evil outsider inexplicably hell-bent on getting Little Johnny hooked to drugs than to talk about the fact that the people who are ''actually'' likely to be encouraging him to try will be his friends and peers.

In this day and age, if a drug dealer is represented as "aggressive" in media, he will most probably be of the "[[AxCrazy shoot it out with the police and anybody who pisses him off]]" variety instead... who are, quite unfortunately, TruthInTelevision and have always been (e.g. Pablo Escobar, the Sinaloa Cartel, etc). Although even that can be exaggerated, as many drug dealers prefer to live, obviously -- something that kind of behavior doesn't really encourage (if this happens, they're usually cornered like Escobar, preferring death over prison, [[CrooksAreBetterArmed already are holding a good hand]] and/or are high themselves-[[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply possibly on their own drug]]).

* Every Halloween, news channels will inevitably run a story on ecstasy or marijuana-laced candy, and other edible drugs passed off as candy, and how parents should beware that these drugs could wind up in their children's trick-or-treat bags. Just to be clear, there are ''no'' recorded cases of this happening in real life. (There are cases of drugs being disguised as candy, but it was sellers trying to hide their product, not giving them away to children.) Not only are drugs way too expensive to give away en masse, but even if a child got hooked and wanted more, they'd have no way of knowing who the dealer was. So basically, such a dealer would be blowing hundreds of dollars [[ForTheEvulz just to get a bunch of kids high for no personal gain]].
** In most or all alleged cases, the supposed recipient found the drugs a lot closer to home, and trick-or-treating was just [[NeverMyFault a convenient scapegoat]] (more tragically, [[OffingTheOffspring this also applies]] to [[TrickedToDeath poisoned candy]]).

* Interestingly, this sort of attitude was a major cause for the opioid epidemic, with pharmaceutical companies bribing doctors into prescribing opioid medications to patients who didn't need such powerful painkillers, or prescribing them to people who did need them but in amounts so large that no human could take them as prescribed without becoming addicted.

* UsefulNotes/TheOpiumWars: British merchants were selling lots of opium in China, but the Chinese government decided to ban it, so Britain ''declared war'' to force China to allow opium consumption. (There were also other provocations & factors, but that was the main goal.) It doesn't get any more aggressive than bringing in an army to help with drug dealing.

** There is A Suspicious Looking Guy, who gives you a free sample of [[GRatedDrug "Goofballs"]], which boost your stats for a while, but [[DrugsAreBad make your parents worry about you]]. If you don't keep taking them, you suffer Goofball Withdrawal, which for a long time was one of the worst StatusEffects in the game.[[note]]Eventually the withdrawal penalty was severely reduced, [[http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showthread.php?p=4250247#post4250247 having been deemed]] rather against the spirit of the game.[[/note]] Each time you go back for more, the price goes up. Aside from getting you addicted, and then price-gouging you, he's not particularly aggressive. And spoofed roughly five times a year, when because it's "Halloween" and you knocked on his door looking for "sweet treats" he's giving out free "candy" (meaning "sugar" and "artificial flavors" to get you all "buzzed") all night! (They're Rock Pops, and perfectly fine for you if you don't follow up by drinking cola.)

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} and the Holograms'' episode "Alone Again", with Bobby Braddock, a sweet-talking drug dealer, though it's still used to the same effect. Bobby, a high schooler, wants the main girl of the episode, Laura, to start using drugs and get hooked on them, giving her a few bags of free pills and then charging her $30 for new ones after he successfully gets her hooked. When she can't pay, he ditches her and her new addiction and finds someone else. While more cold than aggressive, he absolutely fits this trope.

* Every Halloween, local news will inevitably run a story on ecstasy, marijuana-laced candy, and other edible drugs passed off as candy and how parents should "beware" that these drugs could wind up in their children's trick-or-treat bags. Not only are edibles way too expensive to give away for free, but even if a child got hooked and wanted more, they'd have no way of knowing who the dealer was. So basically, such a dealer would be blowing hundreds of dollars [[ForTheEvulz just to get a bunch of kids high for no personal gain]]. Let's put it this way: if people really were giving away free drugs on Halloween, there'd be ''a lot'' more adults out trick-or-treating.

* Somewhat to the surprise of law enforcement trying to catch them, modern dealers of heroin would actually give free doses to certain customers if they didn't have the money to pay at that time. Notably, though this is only ''partly'' to keep them addicted (see ''Dreamland''); it's also both for the safety of themselves and their customer, since severe withdrawal symptoms can be fatal (dealers are very much interested in keeping their customers alive to keep buying from them, after all) and particularly desperate customers who don't want to be dope sick are far more likely to try and steal from or rob their dealers.

* There is also the classic tactic of spiking relatively mild drugs, like marijuana or even alcohol, with more intense and addictive ones, like PCP or better yet some designer cocktail only they sell. Not exactly forcing straight edge kids to become addicts but it is tricking casual drug users into becoming full-blown addicts.

* Interestingly, this sort of attitude was a large part of the cause for the opioid epidemic, with pharmaceutical companies bribing doctors into prescribing opioid medications to patients who didn't need such powerful painkillers, or prescribing them to people who did need them but in amounts so large that no human being could take them as prescribed without becoming addicted.
* President George H.W. Bush, in his first address from the Oval Office, held up a bag of crack cocaine which had been seized from a drug deal which took place just across the street from the White House. The incident was used as an example to show how aggressive drug dealers had become, although it later turned out that the deal had been a deliberate setup so Bush could claim that dealers were "selling next to the White House" (although, from the 70's to the early 90's, DC really was [[WretchedHive Crack Central]] and the claim wasn't ''that'' far-fetched).
* Done on an international scale by England to China during the Opium Wars, which were fought because the Chinese government decided to actually take action against the drug trade, so the English actually fought a war to ''force'' China to make that particular form of drug dealing legal. It doesn't get more aggressive than hauling in an actual army to make people take your drugs.

* A latter Bond example is Franz Sanchez of ''Film/LicenseToKill'', a man who takes Pablo Escobar's concept of "Plata o Plomo" ("[[AnOfferYouCantRefuse Silver or Lead]]") to the ultimate consequences and not only has the dictator general of the BananaRepublic he lives in wrapped around his finger ("you're only a President… [[ImpliedDeathThreat For Life]]") but he has an EvilPlan to shoot down passenger airplanes to strong-arm the DEA to back off.

-->'''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I CAN TASTE THE SUN!!!]]'''

She ever saw in her life (Help me, help me)\\

* Frankie Lideo, the villain of ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'''s "Smooth Criminal" segment. It's a particularly egregious example since, unlike your average Aggressive Drug Dealer who's in it to get kids hooked so as to keep a healthy flow of customers, he appeared to be in it [[ForTheEvulz for the sheer malicious joy]] of getting kids hooked on drugs.

So while the "just say no" narrative would make perfect sense in a social setting, where there might actually be pressure to take them in order to look "cool" to one's peers, the problem was, an anti-peer pressure approach to [=PSAs=] would wind up contradicting the prevailing theory held by MoralGuardians at the time: that deviant behavior arose from [[LonersAreFreaks anti-social tendencies]], and since surely such "bad kids" are a shunned minority, bowing to peer pressure must if anything be a ''[[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong good thing]]''! Not only that, any such [=PSAs=] would also break the illusion any child might have had that their parents are a bastion of safety and morality. In the strict household hierarchy of yesteryear, that last point in particular was a ''no-no''.

Thankfully, most anti-drug [=PSAs=] have been taking a different approach in the last few years: encouraging children to be "above the influence" in all respects toward peer pressure, not just in regard to doing drugs. If your friends go get high after school, you don't have to go with them, and they'll just agree to see you tomorrow instead.

* Chris-R, the ruthless drug dealer from ''Film/TheRoom'', who is willing to sneak into Johnny's apartment while he and ''three other people'' (Lisa, Mark, and Claudette) are inside, and then work his way up to the roof and force Denny at gunpoint to give him the money, but [[ClusterFBomb can't wait five minutes for it to arrive]].

* In Creator/HalClement's novel ''Iceworld'', the protagonist is sent to infiltrate a criminal syndicate that has discovered a drug vapor that addicts those who inhale it with one dose. [[spoiler:The story takes place among aliens who live at very high temperatures, and the drug is tobacco, acquired via robot probe from a human who has no idea why the aliens are willing to trade gold for cigarettes.]]

* [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] was derived from the 1983 ''Film/{{Scarface}}'' movie and Razor was clearly meant to be one of the criminals released from UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}'s jails and dumped on Miami's shores as part of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift Mariel boatlift]].

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* A huge MassiveMultiplayerCrossover inspirational film ''WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' including ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}, the ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', Series/{{Alf}}, Franchise/WinnieThePooh, [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters Slimer]], [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]], ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987,'' ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks,'' and the WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies, was create to combat this enemy, which included a foreword from the leader of whichever country it was being viewed in, such as then-President UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush in its American airing. It's always fun when a sitting President has to talk about a show featuring Smurfs, especially when they clearly didn't know ''what'' a Smurf was five minutes before they turned the camera on.

A [[DeadHorseTrope trope of yesteryear]], born from TheEighties' DARE programs and resulting commercials, "inspirational films," and {{very special episode}}s from the early [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnDrugs War on Drugs]]. The Aggressive Drug Dealer is out there trying to ''force'' your kids into doing drugs. He won't take casual avoidance for an answer and will seek out and use intimidation just to coerce his target. So a type of training is required to [[CatchPhrase "Just Say No."]]

* Played straight in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j53oTk5bsbk early 90s Drug-Free America PSA]]. It depicts a young boy named Kevin running through a rough neighborhood on his way home. Kevin narrates about how at school, his teacher tells kids to "just say no". He points out that his teacher doesn't have to walk home through the same neighborhood that he does. And while the local dealers may be afraid of the police, Kevin says, "they're not scared of me, and they sure don't take 'no' for an answer."

--> Yo man, drug dealers don't sell drugs. Drugs sell themselves. It's crack. It's not an encyclopedia. It's not a fucking vacuum cleaner. You don't really gotta try to sell crack, OK? I've never heard a crack dealer go, "Man, how am I going to get rid of all this crack? It's just piled up in my house."
* Comedian Richard Sarvate says that the impression he got from programs like D.A.R.E. was that he would leave school and immediately he would have to dodge an assault of flying needles. The complete absence of drug pushers made him think he must be doing something wrong. He learned later in High School, "They only offer drugs to the cool kids. I was in no danger."

* Inverted in ''Film/WalkHard'', as each time Dewey stumbles upon Sam doing drugs, the conversation starts with Sam saying "You don't want ''no part'' of this shit." The first one (marijuana) in particular is hilarious, as Dewey keeps guessing reasons why it's so bad, only to be corrected each time that it doesn't give you a hangover, it's not habit-forming, you can't OD on it, it makes sex even better, and it's not only not expensive but ...

* Parodied in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel, ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', where dealers try to sell the drug 'slab' to troll-children. The troll watchman Detritus runs his own version of the 'Drugs -- Just say no' posters, aimed at the ''dealers'': "Slab: Just say [=AarrghaarrghpleasennononoUGH=]". Considering the reputation of Detritus and his [[{{BFG}} converted siege-crossbow]] 'The Piece-Maker', it's probably one of the more effective methods of [[ScareEmStraight scaring 'em straight]].

-->"A key sign that someone doesn’t know much about drugs is this: A story where a drug dealer is desperately trying to give away all of her drugs. There’s that classic story about how the first taste is free, but come on. They’re drugs. I can give them away to you or SELL them FOR MONEY to someone else. This is how drug dealers work. Think of it, I don’t know, like a business. Do drywallers do one wall of a house for free, leaving you wanting more? Fuck no."

* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': When the PCH bikers are selling drugs for the Fitzpatricks, the Fitzpatricks are not happy with how little they are selling. The bikers say it's a matter of supply and demand, to which Liam replies "You have to create demand. It's called drug ''pusher'' for a reason."
* Occasionally, the villain of the day in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger.'' Since the focus of the show is Walker kicking ass, the theme seems to be "If You Just Say No, Drug Dealers Will Kill You, Unless Creator/ChuckNorris Is There to Protect You."

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''Send in the Clones''. When the {{PC}}s meet Hall-Y-Wud-5, he'll try to hook them on the drug he pushes, co-cola. He'll persuade them to try it with a sales pitch, and will offer them a free taste ("First hit is no charge.").

A [[DeadHorseTrope trope of yesteryear]], born from TheEighties' DARE programs and resulting commercials, "inspirational films," and {{very special episode}}s. The Aggressive Drug Dealer is out there trying to ''force'' your kids into doing drugs. He won't take casual avoidance for an answer and will seek out and use intimidation just to coerce his target. So a type of training is required to [[CatchPhrase "Just Say No."]]

* Done on an international scale by England to China during the Opium Wars, which were fought because the Chinese government decided to actually take action against the drug trade, so the English actually fought a war to ''force'' China to make that particular form of drug dealing legal.

* Done on an international scale by England to China during the Opium Wars.