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** Alice is an extremely sensitively attuned psychic, but when she gets stoned it dampens her powers. This is used for a DrugsAreBad FantasticAesop.

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** Alice is an extremely sensitively attuned psychic, but when she gets stoned it dampens her powers. This is used for a DrugsAreBad FantasticAesop.SpaceWhaleAesop.

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* '''Defied''': "What, you thought the stuff you saw when you were ''high'' would come true? Why on earth would you think that??"

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"What, you thought the stuff you saw when you were ''high'' would come true? Why on earth would you think that??"that??"
** Alice refuses to have so much as a can of beer because getting visions is a profoundly disturbing experience for her.

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** Alice using her abilities to see the future causes her to get extremely high as a side effect.



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%%* * '''Played For Drama''': ???Alice was TheTeetotaler after her experience with neglectful parents who spent more time getting high than caring for her or her siblings - it is specifically noted that the substances aren't usually addictive but they were for her parents. After being accidentally dosed she discovers her power and is left with fear and disgust at it - yet she may need to use it more to save the world.

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* '''Implied''': The prophet's ritual involves lighting some braziers which give off some very funny coloured smoke that gives other people headaches.



* '''Implied''': The prophet's ritual involves lighting some braziers which give off some very funny coloured smoke that gives other people headaches.

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* '''Implied''': The prophet's ritual involves lighting some braziers which give off some very funny coloured smoke that gives other people headaches.%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???



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* '''Played For Laughs''': In a modern high-school reimagining of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', the three witches are comical stoner stereotypes.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': In a modern high-school reimagining of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', the three witches are [[TheStoner comical stoner stereotypes.stereotypes]].

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is an extremely sensitively attuned psychic, but when she gets stoned [[FantasticAesop it dampens her powers]].

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Alice is an extremely sensitively attuned psychic, but when she gets stoned [[FantasticAesop it dampens her powers]].powers. This is used for a DrugsAreBad FantasticAesop.
** Alice is an extremely sensitively attuned psychic, but has been [[MedicateTheMedium kept on psychiatric medication since she first started yammering about her "visions"]], and they've dampened her powers. She decides "NoMedicationForMe" and her visions come back.

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* '''Implied''': The prophet's ritual involves lighting some braziers which give off some very funny coloured smoke that gives other people headaches.



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* '''Inverted''': Alice is an extremely sensitively attuned psychic, but when she gets stoned [[FantasticAesop it dampens her powers]].

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is an extremely sensitively attuned psychic, but when she gets stoned [[FantasticAesop it dampens her powers]].



* '''Played For Laughs''': In a modern high-school reimagining of ''{{Macbeth}}'', the three witches are comical stoner stereotypes.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': In a modern high-school reimagining of ''{{Macbeth}}'', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', the three witches are comical stoner stereotypes.
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': ???In this universe, even smoking pot will give you intense, lucid visions of the future.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice's visions require a complicated, pseudo-religious ritual to set off, one aspect of which involves taking a psychoactive substance.



* '''Inverted''': Alice is an extremely sensitivel attuned psychic, but when she gets stoned it dampens her powers.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is an extremely sensitivel sensitively attuned psychic, but when she gets stoned [[FantasticAesop it dampens her powers.powers]].



* '''Zig Zagged''': It's kept ambiguous for as long as possible whether Alice's visions were prophetic or nonsensical.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': It's kept ambiguous for as long as possible whether Alice's visions [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane were prophetic or nonsensical.nonsensical]], and it's hard to tell either way - some of her prophecies seem to come truer than others, but we don't know what she actually saw first-hand and we don't know whether YouCantFightFate is in effect or not.



* '''Invoked''': A tribal shaman claims that the drugs give him visions because it allows him to (a) consolidate his position as spiritual leader and (b) get high.

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* '''Invoked''': A tribal shaman claims that lies about the drugs give giving him visions because it allows him to (a) consolidate his position as spiritual leader and (b) get high.



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The downsides to his methods are shown in full, but people can't ignore the fact that his visions inevitably come true. He has to wrestle with the fact that his abilities save the lives of others but are ruining his own.
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'''Played For Laughs''': ???In a modern high-school reimagining of ''{{Macbeth}}'', the three witches are comical stoner stereotypes.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???A tribe tampers with the drugs of a rival tribe's shaman to guarantee terrifying, demoralizing prophecies.

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