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7	->''"I take Quaaludes 10 to 15 times a day for my 'back pain', Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine, well, because it's awesome."''
8	-->-- '''Jordan Belfort''', ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet''
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10	DrugsAreBad, right? They're dangerous. You can get addicted. You could overdose. They have harmful side effects. You could bankrupt yourself, ruin your career, catch diseases from dirty needles. Drugs are bad!
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12	But what if they aren't bad?
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14	Maybe you take a drug and you feel really awesome. Maybe drugs lighten your bad mood. Maybe they make life more exciting. Maybe spiking the punch makes the WildTeenParty a lot more fun. Drugs are good!
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16	As the title indicates, Drugs Are Good is the inverse of DrugsAreBad. This trope is for instances in fiction and creative works where the use of drugs is portrayed in a positive light. Drugs Are Good is most frequently seen with cigarettes and alcohol, which have always been more or less socially acceptable. It also may accompany depictions of marijuana use, given the common perception of marijuana as a less harmful drug than other illegal drugs. Examples of Drugs Are Good with harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin are rarer, but not unknown; both drugs used to be legal and used medicinally and recreationally until the 1920s. LSD can sometimes be depicted as such, where it's used as [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs a tool for greater understanding]] and making things look more colorful.
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18	Many {{Stoner Flick}}s are examples of this. OdeToIntoxication is the musical equivalent if it's played straight. Related tropes include DrunkenMaster (getting drunk/stoned makes you better at something) and SmokingIsCool (which is about signaling a ''character'' is cool but does involve a positive portrayal of smoking).
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20	Compare with HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs, which isn't so much "drugs are good" (it's often depicted as a creepy or forceful effect) as "drugs are useful".
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22	The FunctionalAddict may believe this but they really aren't an example. The SmugStraightEdge or the DryCrusader may pop up in a Drugs Are Good work. This trope may get paired with DrugsAreBad in a work that shows the "good" side of drugs but then pivots to DrugsAreBad to show the consequences.
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24	Note that this trope is about the users of drugs, not the sellers. For "drug ''dealing'' is good", see DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster or BetterLivingThroughEvil.
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27	!!Examples
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31	[[folder:Advertising]]
32	* Most every commercial or print advertisement for beer and alcohol is this. A commercial can't tell you how the beer tastes (and, on U.S. television, [[MediaNotes/BeerCommercials can't show it being drunk on camera]]), but it can show you some cool-looking people holding beer at a party.
33	* Cigarette advertisements did this as well before government regulations drove them from the air. Camel cigarettes, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKLpO9qhOE preferred by doctors]]! The Marlboro Man remained in print ads as an example of masculinity until 1999.
34	* [[https://youtu.be/BirGJS23Nfo An ad]] for ''Film/AlienCovenant'' that crosses over with ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' shows that Rick's consumption of alcohol and drugs has made him immune enough to Facehuggers that one dies within seconds before it could impregnate him. [[spoiler:HarsherInHindsight, as the movie proper sees Lope, a CigarChomper, be a host for a chestburster.]]
35	* In states where medical and especially recreational marijuana is legal, you'll see highway billboards advertising dispensaries and shops. Some signs remind you that pot is good for pain and stress, some veteran-run shops use a military theme and talk about PTSD, etc. Weedmaps' [[https://weedmaps.com/weedfacts/ Weedfacts]] billboards present facts about legal pot to clear up misunderstandings.
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39	* The plot of ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'' involves a hallucinogenic drug called "dizzy dizzy" which is stated to have been derived from research into LSD. While it is a villainous force throughout the story, the end of the first episode shows Lupin, after launching the drug into the ocean, frolicking happily in brightly-coloured hallucinogenic water and encouraging the others to come for a swim with him, with no ill effects. Even later, when the villains get him high on the drug and reality begins to break down, he alludes to Zenigata that he'd be enjoying this if Zenigata hadn't shown up. One of the sequel movies also shows Fujiko casually hitting a bong while relaxing after a heist.
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43	* Being an expy of Creator/HunterSThompson, Spider Jerusalem of ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' does all his best writing on drugs. Makes his assistants take up smoking at the very least (in Jerusalem's future, an anti-cancer genetic trait can be acquired via taking a pill). Though he does go on the occasional binge where he's too out of it to do anything. Also, in contrast with the non-cancerous smoking, Jerusalem's breadth and depth of substance abuse is shown to be slowly exceeding the threshold that even the advanced medicine of his time can prevent or repair.
44	* Creator/GrantMorrison is extremely fond of this trope, as well as [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs character drug use]] [[DrugsAreBad in general]]:
45	** In ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'', the main character ingests peyote, which briefly [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs opens his eyes]] to the fact that he is in a comic book.
46	** ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' ends with Lex Luthor incoherently trying to explain a psychedelic experience brought on by [[spoiler:his newfound Kryptonian powers]], which [[spoiler:causes him to undergo a pivotal HeelFaceTurn at the end.]]
47	* Creator/AlanMoore plays this straight in several of his works, especially his ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' run. The hallucinogenic tubers that grow out of the titular character's back help several characters achieve HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs, though it's suggested that the tubers act as more of a "cosmic litmus paper" that make life a living hell for any ''bad'' people who eat them.
48	** Subverted somewhat in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', in which Finch is able to track down the titular terrorist by "getting into his head"- i.e., taking LSD.
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51	[[folder:Fan Works]]
52	* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "The New Shop In The Village", Chatty and Nosey Smurf both open the equivalent of a "coffee and pot shop" in the Smurf Village called The Wake N Bake Brew Shop as an alternative to Tapper's Tavern for [[FantasticDrug smurfnip]] users to enjoy using it when a new strain of smurfnip that gets Smurfs high but doesn't produce hallucinations is developed and thus smurfnip is legalized in the village, but Tapper's Tavern still wouldn't allow smurfnip users to light up in there. Although it was supposed to be a morning-only shop, Chatty and Nosey have it open the following evening when their wives bake smurfnip-laced desserts. Empath visits the shop during the evening hours and just sees the Smurfs enjoying a peaceful night in the shop, smoking smurfnip and eating desserts, and simply lets them be without bringing any kind of punishment upon them.
53	* In ''WebAnimation/TheSpyFightsGodzillaForSomeReason'', snorting a bottle-load of crystal meth allows [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 the Spy]] to grow to {{Kaiju}} size and combat Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.
54	-->'''Spy:''' That's right! I have harnessed the power of crystal METH! [[PrepareToDie DIE!]]
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58	* The [[TheSeventies 1971]] {{Documentary}} film ''Aphrodisiac: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana'' is a dramatization of the benefits of smoking marijuana. It chronicles how smoking pot improved the sex lives of many couples and the film also presents the medicinal benefits of marijuana.
59	* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': Bender brings some grass he had stashed in his school locker and the kids have an eighties montage over smoking it in the school library during detention.
60	* This dialog in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'':
61	--> '''Ty''': You take drugs, Danny?
62	--> '''Danny''': Every day.
63	--> '''Ty''': Good. Then what's your problem?
64	--> '''Danny''': I don't know.
65	* Creator/CharlieChaplin liked this trope.
66	** In ''Film/TheCure1917'', Charlie's an alcoholic trying to dry out at a health spa. His stash of liquor is discovered and thrown out--into the well that guests at the spa drink mineral water from. A really fun-looking party ensues.
67	** In ''Film/EasyStreet'', Charlie sits on a cocaine syringe. The jolt of energy he gets helps him to rescue the LoveInterest and beat up a gang of thugs.
68	** Similarly, in ''Film/ModernTimes'', Charlie winds up accidentally ingesting some cocaine that another prisoner hid in a salt shaker. It helps him foil a jailbreak.
69	* It's very difficult to believe that ''Film/TheFaculty'' didn't promote a message like this. There are loads of things that can be a monstrous alien's downfall from AppliedPhlebotinum to WeaksauceWeakness, but what absolutely kills the vicious aliens that harbor goals of assimilation and replacement? Narcotics! Yep. Cleverly disguised as writing pens so you can use the drugs in class. What is the surefire way to tell that your friend hasn't been infected with an alien parasite in this movie? Why, see if they can use drugs without dying, of course.
70	* As noted above, many (but not all) {{Stoner Flick}}s are this. The ''Harold and Kumar'' series, where a heartwarming moment is Kumar's girlfriend [[Film/AVeryHaroldAndKumar3DChristmas telling him to use her pee to beat drug tests]], is a good example.
71	--> '''Kumar''': But weed is ''so good''. It gets you high!
72	* ''Film/KnivesOut'': Harlan, an 85-year-old man who gets a nightly morphine injection for pain, really enjoys morphine and wonders why he waited until he was in his 80s to use it.
73	* ''Film/TheMysteryOfTheLeapingFish'' is a very strange short film from 1916 starring Douglas Fairbanks as a private detective named [[PunnyName Coke Ennyday]] who really, really likes cocaine. Possibly a satirical take on Literature/SherlockHolmes, he is constantly shooting up with cocaine and laughing like a maniac. He defeats the bad guys by jabbing them with cocaine syringes until they're as high as he is.
74	* ''Film/{{Poltergeist\|1982}}''. Diane and Steven Freeling are shown smoking a marijuana cigarette together and having a great time.
75	* ''Film/Pride2014'': [[spoiler:long-surving AIDS patient]] Jonathan credits his longevity to his daily marijuana use.
76	* ''Film/TheThinMan'' and its sequels. Nick Charles drinks and drinks and drinks, and it appears to do nothing but make him more witty and charming.
77	* [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition]] was the inspiration for a lot of these booze-soaked narratives as both books and films depicted how people managed to get around it. (If you're watching a period film but it has sound -- say, something with Creator/MaeWest -- it was probably made in the '30s and thus depicts a slightly earlier time, like a movie about hippies made in the '80s.)
78	* In the film ''Mac and Devin Go to High School'' the CG joint narrator filibusters about how weed is good and should be legalized. In the story proper, weed is also what helps the valedictorian finally relax and enjoy his life.
79	* Played with in {{Biopic}} satire ''Film/WalkHard''. Dewey Cox does in fact have drug problems that force him into rehab. But his bandmate Sam, who introduces him to each drug in turn as a RunningGag, seems to have no problem with drugs other than resenting Dewey for never paying for them. And Sam gets off an epic defense of marijuana.
80	--> '''Sam''': No, Dewey, you don't want this. Get outta here!
81	--> '''Dewey Cox''': You know what, I don't want no hangover. I can't get no hangover.
82	--> '''Sam''': It ''doesn't'' give you a hangover!
83	--> '''Dewey''': Wha-I get addicted to it or something?
84	--> '''Sam''': It's ''not habit-forming!''
85	--> '''Dewey''': Oh, okay...well, I don't know...I don't want to overdose on it.
86	--> '''Sam''': You ''can't OD on it!''
87	--> '''Dewey''': It's not gonna make me wanna have sex, is it?
88	--> '''Sam''': It makes sex ''even better!''
89	--> '''Dewey''': Sounds kind of expensive.
90	--> '''Sam''': It's the ''cheapest drug there is''.
91	* Subverted in ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet''. Jordan Belfort ''claims'' that drugs are totally awesome, and takes multiple pills and lines of different types a day. It's clear however that he's a just a common addict, and it even aids his own undoing when he's literally too drugged out to do any effective damage control once the authorities start investigating his illegal operations.
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95	* ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'' is {{Creator/Tom Wolfe}}'s account of Creator/KenKesey and his bus full of hippies going on a road trip across America, dropping acid and enjoying themselves. (Well, mostly.)
96	* ''Literature/DownAndOutInTheMagicKingdom'': Since addiction is easily cured and health consequences don't mean much to immortals, there are casual in-passing references to the main character's girlfriend smoking crack.
97	* ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'': The epic, VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory tale of Creator/HunterSThompson's drug-fueled adventures in Las Vegas. The preface quotes Samuel Johnson: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." The book is about Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo (Thompson's avatars for himself and Oscar Acosta) indulging in copious amounts of drugs in order to escape the decline of American culture and the failure of the counterculture movement.
98	--> (first line) "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold..."
99	** Could be read both ways. Thompson brutally mocks police efforts to come to grips with drug culture and the War on Drugs, but Duke and Dr. Gonzo cross the line so many times that it's a miracle they both escape Las Vegas. Lampshaded by Duke, who notes they've gone to such excess that no one could possibly believe it.
100	* Iain M Bank's ''Literature/TheCulture'' novels have all narcotics and recreational drugs available to the entire population. Since, in that setting, you can sober up instantly if you have to and all medical problems are pretty much instantly curable too, they are just another fun way to pass the day.
101	* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' speaks about smoking pipe-weed (presumably, the our world equivalent is Nicotiana rustica, a.k.a. mopacho tobacco, but [[EpilepticTrees other theories abound]]) and drinking ale as good things. Elves don't smoke and prefer wine but they also brew cordials that save you in the middle of a blizzard.
102	* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' talks about the delights of hashish, and claims he uses it to sleep at will. In the end, he uses it to [[spoiler:heighten Maximilian's suicidal depression, before revealing that Valentine was still alive, so as to give Maximilian an understanding of his own happiness]].
103	* Creator/HPLovecraft had hashish as a helpful adjunct to exploring the Dreamlands in the short story "Celephais".
104	* Creator/LordDunsany may have inspired Lovecraft with his story "The Hashish Man", where a man tells the narrator of "Bethmoora" that he's been there too, by taking hashish.
105	* In John Crowley's magic-realism novel ''Literature/LittleBigOrTheFairiesParliament'', George Mouse owns a huge crumbling old New York townhouse with a basement full of commercially packaged [[http://www.trueamsterdam.com/wp-content/uploads/Nederhash.jpg hashish bars]]. The building had once housed a Lebanese grocery, at a time when hashish was sold legally and openly as penny candy.[[note]]If you live where pot is legal [[https://www.edrosenthal.com/the-guru-of-ganja-blog/4-ways-to-make-hashish-at-home you can make your own hash bars]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGm1Ssq9u2s relatively easily.]][[/note]] George also takes a drug called Pellucidar, probably a street drug like Ecstasy named after the [[Literature/{{Pellucidar}} Edgar Rice Burroughs stories]], which seems to be a mild stimulant enhancing perception, but has nasty after-effects.
106	* The main characters in ''Literature/EdenGreen'' smoke marijuana to calm themselves in several situations, especially after infection with an alien needle symbiote. The title character also uses heroin (or rather, has it administered to her) to deal with the agony. By contrast, the main character in sequel ''Literature/NewNight'' is a former police officer who personally doesn't approve of drugs, but tolerates his best friend's stoner tendencies. (The author is [[https://twitter.com/FekketCantenel/status/791994782864187393 pro-marijuana]] and sometimes [[https://twitter.com/FekketCantenel/status/825754515689320448 uses psychedelics]].)
107	* In ''Literature/HeroinStory'', [[Main/FunctionalAddict David]]'s heroin use helps him deal with his crippling depression. The pros of using outweigh the cons for him.
108	* ''Literature/AfterTheRevolution'': All the 'good' characters use drugs at one point during the book, while the villains are StraightEdgeEvil Christian fundamentalists. The 'nicest' faction in the Texan Civil War, the anarcho-posthuman MobileCity of Rolling Fuck, makes a living synthesizing drugs and selling it to towns they pass near, and everyone living there are permanently high. No-one has a bad trip; even Manny taking an LSD-laced beer intended for a post-human just causes him to wig out for a few hours and go to a really strange rave [[spoiler:and gives him the determination to help Rolling Fuck rescue their people from the Heavenly Kingdom.]]
109	* ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'', being a hippie ConspiracyKitchenSink satire, extols the virtues of marijuana and LSD, and in the finale, LSD in the festival's water supply is used to give a psychic shield to the festival goers against the Illuminati's attack.
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113	* ''Series/MadMen'' has multiple examples of this. Peggy Olson lights up a joint more than once and always enjoys herself. Roger Sterling takes LSD, loves it, and tries to get his friends to do it too. (On the other hand, the series has always taken a dark view of [[TheAlcoholic alcohol abuse]]. Heroin is another counterexample, given the example of Don's mistress Midge.)
114	** Season 1 provides a meta example, as Don is trying to come up with an advertising campaign for Lucky Strike cigarettes.
115	* ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'': The show is full of drug use, and while the guys mostly just drink and smoke weed, they also take shrooms and drop acid. They shy away from harder drugs (Adam says they're not his cup of tea), and Blake denounces huffing nitrous as 'hippy crack'. While the guys themselves are presented as losers, it doesn't have that much to do with their substance problems.
116	* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'': Recreational drug use is a) rather prominent and b) not a big deal.
117	* ''Series/TheLWord'': Most of the cast is shown using some form of marijuana at various points, and Shane even dabbles in harder drugs, to no ill effect.
118	* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Various cases are solved with the assistance of narcotics, Olivia Dunham spends much of the pilot on homemade LSD in a sensory deprivation tank, Walter is constantly using psychotropics (on himself and others), and one of his former test subjects, while decidedly loopy as a result of her LSD-induced trances, is entirely happy and expresses her gratitude to Walter years later - with a kiss.
119	** Walter uses a bong, which is still pretty rare on American network television. And Episode 3x19 is called "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide". That's LSD, kids. Astrid is the ''only'' member of the central cast who hasn't been under the influence of drugs onscreen at some point.
120	* Episode 1-4 of ''Series/ChappellesShow'' featured a parody of the TRUTH.com [[PublicServiceAnnouncement anti-smoking PSAs]] ("TRUF.com") in which the announcer says that cigarette smoking causes "feelings of euphoria, increased alertness, rises in short-term memory and can have [[CigaretteOfAnxiety a calming effect on nerves]]."
121	--> '''Dave''': And they're not bad after [[SmokingHotSex unprotected sex with multiple partners]], neither.
122	* ''Series/BoredToDeath'': It's probably easier to count the number of episodes in which the main characters are not smoking pot. Sometimes the character may become an EruditeStoner while under the influence.
123	--> '''Jonathan''': I still ''like the way pot makes me think'' - maybe ''it's healthy''.
124	--> '''Suzanne''': Pot is not healthy.
125	--> '''Jonathan''': ''They give it to cancer patients''.
126	--> '''Suzanne''': You don't have cancer.
127	--> '''Jonathan''': Not yet...
128	* The cops of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' bust a drug dealer named Joe. Joe admits that he's guilty, but takes exception to being called a drug ''pusher''.
129	--> '''Joe''': Dude, drugs don't need pushing. They push themselves. ''People love drugs''.
130	* ''Series/SexAndTheCity'': The [[TheStoner girls often smoke pot]] and none of them resemble the unglamorous example of a marijuana smoker.
131	** In "Defining Moments", Samantha fondly recalls having [[AThreesomeIsHot two girl, one guy threesomes]] on Quaaludes:
132	-->'''Samantha''': I've [[GirlOnGirlIsHot done the girl thing]] - once, twice, usually involved a guy and a couple of Quaaludes. It was nice really, and really nice for the guy.
133	* ''Series/BarneyMiller'': In the episode "[[Recap/BarneyMillerS3E11 Hash]]", the detectives unintentionally ingest hash baked into brownies by Wojo's girlfriend. It's played as cute and funny, and in Fish's case positively beneficial.
134	--> '''Fish.''' The first time in twenty years I felt really good -- and it has to be illegal!
135	* Viceland's cooking show ''Bong Appétit'' is a documentary-style cooking show that celebrates the joy of marijuana and showing all the various ways food and weed combine. Some of the guest chefs who don't smoke weed have found it fascinating that they could combine various marijuana products into their dishes.
136	* ''Series/LawAndOrder'', of all shows, plays this straight during Van Buren's cancer storyline. She initially refuses to use medical marijuana as she's aware of how professionally disastrous it would be for her if discovered. Then the Chief of Detectives, a cancer survivor himself, stops by to encourage her to use it and says he'll look the other way as long as she's discreet.
137	* The first episode of ''Series/ThePath'' shows ceremonial use of ayahuasca by Meyerist believers, led by a Peruvian shaman. Throughout the series, it's shown to be helpful and healing. Marijuana is used as a meditation aid or just to relax. These drugs are considered so beneficial that one of our first hints that Cal Roberts should ''not'' be Meyerism's new leader is that he wants to stop their use, just to make Meyerism look better to outsiders and recruit more followers.
138	* ''{{Series/Euphoria}}'': {{Zigzagged}}. Roy says "drugs are kinda awesome" before admitting this is ''before'' the negative effects it has on your appearance etc.
139	* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' has multiple examples:
140	** In a first season episode, the Roses eagerly accept a joint from the Schitts, who had presumed the posh Roses would be above it. Moira responds by bragging that she and Johnny had friends and the FDA.
141	** A couple of episodes later, Stevie and David smoke her scuzzy cousin's weed and have a great time, including KissingUnderTheInfluence.
142	** In the third season, David gets stoned with Stevie and then leaves a series of adorable messages for Patrick, whom he just met.
143	** When David and Patrick open their store, Jocelyn and Roland accuse David of running a front because the loose leaf tea is weed. A surprised David first denies it, but when it's clear that it is true, Roland and Jocelyn happily buy several bags.
144	** In the fourth season, the Jazzagals go on a road trip and Jocelyn brings along magic brownies while Moira brings military grade caffeine pills.
145	* In ''Series/That70sShow'', the main characters are all recreational users of weed, and suffer no ill effects from it. In fact, the penultimate episode features a plot where Hyde worries his friends when he reacts to changes in his life by ''quitting'' weed, and they have an intervention to make him reconsider.
146	* The ''Series/{{Disjointed}}'' fake commercials advertising various brands of cannabis, particularly Tokelers, which is a spoof on the Folgers coffee commercial, as the family sits around the Christmas tree taking hits from the bong. In fact, the CentralTheme of the show is about the benefits that medicinal and recreational use of marijuana can offer to people, as well as its place in society and modern medicine.
147	* While drug use is also shown with negative eefects in ''Series/SixFeetUnder'', there are also moments where drugs help chracters reach positive outcomes, like when Ruth accidentally takes an ecstasy pill David hastily stashed in a bottle of aspirin.
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151	* Music/AlexanderPerls created a song titled "With a Spirit" under his music alias, ''009 Sound System''. In the verse he sings this line.
152	-->"And don't stop taking these drugs cause they, got you flying forgetting yesterday. Maybe it's crazy but keep getting stoned while you can. Oh baby in the Lord's hands!"
153	* FIDLAR, full stop. The lyrical basis of their entire discography is partying, taking drugs, drinking, partying, smoking weed, skating, partying, and generally not giving a fuck about anything. It's presented in a very upbeat, carefree manner in their various demos, EP's, and on their self-titled debut. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJXGlAUKqE the music video]] for a song from their EP 'Shit We Recorded In Our Bedroom' is composed entirely of edited-together anti-drug PSA's, presented humorously in contrast to the song's lyrical content. [[spoiler: Partially subverted on their second album Too, which chronicles frontman Zac Carper's journey to sobriety following the release of their first album.]]
154	* Replace all instances of the word "chocolate" with "marijuana" in Music/{{The 1975}}'s "Chocolate", and [[http://rock.rapgenius.com/The-1975-chocolate-lyrics it makes incredible sense]].
155	* Most of ''Music/{{Hawkwind}}'''s output. ''Motorhead'' is about doing speed. Famously, its author and lead singer Lemmy Kilminster was later thrown out of the band for doing too much of it and took the song with him. ''Hashcake 77'' is an instrumental which manages to convey the way it feels when doing dope. You can ''feel'' righteously stoned just listening to it.
156	* Music/JeffersonAirplane's "White Rabbit" about a young girl who chases a rabbit one day and gets experimental with things that make her larger and smaller, whilst encountering caterpillars smoking hookahs and self-willed chess pieces and a talking dormouse. Hmmm. (It's a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'').
157	--> "FEED YOUR HEAD, FEED YOUR HEAD"
158	* Music/TheMoodyBlues recorded ''Legend of a Mind'', a paean of praise to American drugs pioneer psychologist Dr Timothy Leary, who (along with some other psychiatrists at the time) advocated that LSD could be used under controlled medical supervision to heal many forms of mental illness. Leary was repeatedly jailed by the US authorities for his beliefs and made ''persona non grata'' in American academia. His record album ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhgJsg2mMeQ The Psychedelic Experience]]'' is designed to be listened to during a HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs LSD session, what used to be called "mind tripping".
159	* Very common in {{Reggae}}, since the genre is practically inseparable from the Rastafari religion, which encourages the use of marijuana to aid meditation.
160	* Music/PeterTosh was particularly blatant about it. His first solo album, titled ''Music/LegalizeIt'', had a cover photo of Tosh sitting in a field full of weed, smoking a pipe. The title track is a long list of reasons why ganja is awesome, set to music.
161	--> Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
162	* The Shamen's ''Ebeneezer Goode''. The chorus goes "'Eezer Goode! 'Eezer Goode! He's Ebeneezer Goode!" Now think of it phonetically. [[spoiler: Es are good! Es are good!]]
163	* Brandy Clark's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3Pxk6XUXk Get High]]" tells of how smoking pot helps a woman get by.
164	* The Sons of Champlin's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oznLE22KILQ Get High]]", initially released on the ''Loosen Up Naturally'' album in 1969, advises the listener that tripping alone helps you understand your true inner nature.
165	* "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Drugs Are Good]]" by NOFX is a partial subversion, because though it repeatedly claims "Drugs Are Good" the reasons its give seem, in many places, to actually be reasons why DrugsAreBad. Notable, because NOFX is generally very pro-drugs (but also very pro-SelfDeprecatingHumor).
166	--> ''Drugs are good''
167	--> ''They make you do things that you know you not should''
168	--> ''And when you do 'em people think that you're cool''
169	--> ''And when you do 'em people think that you're cool''
170	* [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Stewie & Brian Griffin]]'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK8fAUlqbow A Bag Of Weed]]".
171	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mufbOqlRjmA Granny won't you smoke some]], Granny won't you smoke some...
172	* In "Downtown" by Music/LadyAntebellum, the main protagonist and her significant other smoke pot as a part of their quality time:
173	--> "We used to smoke while we were [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jaywalk&defid=2201669 jaywalking]] like it was your birthday every other Saturday night"
174	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdfqzuQ8j5I Weed Instead Of Roses]]" by Ashley Monroe raves about marijuana being great as a [[ButLiquorIsQuicker sex drug]].
175	* Music/BlackSabbath's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5_eoB7v5R8 Sweet Leaf]]" is a pro-marijuana song, and opens with a loop of Tommy Iommi coughing immediately after taking a hit. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g33wjg9IbhM Snowblind]]" is a pro-cocaine song.
176	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWjtWONuGc Smoke A Little Smoke]]" by Music/EricChurch.
177	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyrphxqtBc Marijuana]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BapI6zOlBCY Bass Strings]]" by Country Joe and the Fish.
178	* A good number of songs by sludge metal supergroup Music/{{Down}} are about the joys of pot smoking. A possible subversion, since quite a few of them amount to "I'm a loser, so I'll smoke pot to bring just a little bit of joy into my life."
179	* Music/TomLehrer's "The Old Dope Peddler", from his debut album ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer'', is a sentimental tribute to a neighborhood drug dealer who "do(es) well by doing good." The trope is {{played for laughs}} and shock value, the latter especially since it was recorded early in TheFifties. It was a satire of the 1946 tune "The Old Lamp Lighter".
180	* AmbiguousSyntax: Cindy Margolis sings about having sex on cocaine in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBwLh8YTDc Sexy Soda Pop]]".
181	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3LD0zc5jzc Rails]]" by Music/DavidAllanCoe.
182	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ID6o9DbLc Smokin' and Drinkin']]" by Music/MirandaLambert is a pot-smoking song.
183	* ''The Orange County Rolling Acres Senior Center Cannabis Club'' by Music/RoyZimmerman is all about how the residents of the titular senior center have a lot more fun with life thanks to having access to marijuana.
184	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8j2ej5jqQw "White Horse"]] by Laid Back is pro-cocaine but [[DrugsAreBad anti-heroin]].
185	* And let's not forget Music/TheBeatles and their amazing technicolor output. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etN0h_e5rvI Tomorrow Never Knows]] (lyrics adapted from Leary's ''The Psychedelic Experience''), "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UQK-UcRezE Strawberry Fields Forever]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaJWdp6NT1U Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HNFqz2VkgA She Said, She Said]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpE6RDofFW8 I Am The Walrus]]", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtHkW97AJk8 "Norwegian Wood"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGdyvj58B_U "Got To Get You Into My Life"]] and on and on.
186	** Based on her lustful cooing and [[MatingDance dance moves]] while singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTf8j9lu40Y this cover]] of their [[WordOfGod pro-pot]] "Got To Get You Into My Life", Cheryl Ladd touts marijuana as a [[ButLiquorIsQuicker good sex drug]].
187	* "The Hanukkah Song" by Creator/AdamSandler presents smoking pot as a great way for [[InformedJudaism Jewish people]] to celebrate Hanukkah in this verse:
188	--> ''So drink your gin-and-tonic-ah, and smoke your marijuanic-ah''
189	--> ''If you really, really wanna-kah, have a happy, happy, happy, happy''
190	--> ''Hanukkah, happy Hanukkah''
191	* Music/NeilYoung is (or was) a well-known stoner. His song "Flying on the Ground is Wrong" is about pot. In one of his acoustic concert monologues he gives the [[http://thrasherswheat.org/rns/honeyslides.htm recipe for honeyslides]], which he used to make his voice deeper for songs like "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tscuMCFJsQY Motion Pictures"]]. For years he smoked joints as if they were regular cigarettes. He quit, or cut way back, in 2011 after doctors detected pre-dementia changes in his brain. [[note]]He also stopped drinking after his daughter Amber decided she was an alcoholic and stopped drinking; his song "Ramada Inn" reflects his worry that he and his then-wife Pegi were both drinking too much.[[/note]] He says "The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognise myself," so he looks everywhere for grounding. He still put out an album called ''Psychedelic Pill'' though. And of course he spent years working with David Crosby, well known in the Los Angeles area for having (and selling) extremely powerful grass.
192	* "Highdelbeeren" by Austrian singer Wilfried. The text is very convoluted, but already the "high" should make clear he's not talking about huckleberries.
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195	[[folder:Podcasts]]
196	* ''Podcast/BehindTheBastards'': By his own (possibly exaggerated) admission, host Robert Evans has experimented a lot with drugs and frequently alludes to his drug-using past, usually in a positive manner. On his episode of Woulter Basson (biological weapons expert for Apartheid South Africa turned MDMA cook), Robert joked that it's not unlikely he at some point tried some of Basson's product during the nineties.
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199	[[folder:Stand Up Comedy]]
200	* Despite being a former drug user for much of his career, Creator/BillHicks was a big believer in this. He stated in his act that he believed marijuana use should be not just legal but mandatory, and he also advocated liberal use of psychedelics.
201	* Creator/GeorgeCarlin credited mescaline, marijuana, and LSD for their positive effects on his life. Averted with opiates and cocaine, though, which he condemned for the damage they did to his health and wallet.
202	--> The first time I tried cocaine, I felt like a new man! ... And the first thing this new man wanted -- was more cocaine!
203	* Creator/DenisLeary gave up every drug except his two favorites: beer and cigarettes (numm numm numm numm), with the occasional coffee on weekends. He brags that he smokes 7,000 packs a day, and will use his eventual tracheotomy to smoke two cigarettes at once (numm numm numm numm), and will rename himself Tracheotomy Man.
204	->I can smoke a pack at a time, I am Tracheotomy Man!
205	* Honestly, practically ''every comedian ever'' qualifies for this. Creator/DougStanhope, Creator/JoeRogan, Creator/BillMaher, Creator/RussellBrand, Creator/ZachGalifianakis, the list goes on and on and on. You could find more comedians who are opposed to '''gay marriage''' than those who oppose drugs.
206	* Creator/EricAndre has a comedy special called "Legalize Everything", in which he talks about his many drug experiences, and argues the case for the special's title.
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209	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
210	* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'': With a few notable exceptions, drugs either have positive effects on espers or at least have benefits that outweigh the costs.
211	** The Zodiac Order also has this outlook on drugs in general.
212	** Breaks in the book's text often have little pictures of pills in them.
213	** ''Tomorrow's Starlight'' details a character experiencing a very pleasant trip at a concert and most of the characters use drugs including alcohol frequently.
214	* Played with in ''TabletopGame/ViolenceTheRoleplayingGameOfEgregiousAndRepulsiveBloodshed'' (a satire of hack-n-slash [=RPGs=]). The section on Drugs is basically an extended AuthorTract that can be summarized as "Drugs aren't ''that'' bad, but they ''can'' be addictive and dangerous, so stick to alcohol because it's safer," along with some guidelines for roleplaying various effects.
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217	[[folder:Video Games]]
218	* In ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow'', syringes of an unidentified "recreational narcotic" are your Bulwark Against the Terror; the one non-random event thing that can restore your SanityMeter. Though it is a bit downplayed in that it is only a temporary boost, and using it too often reduces its effectiveness. It's a good idea to save a dose for your confrontation with whatever EldritchAbomination is trying to eat the world this playthrough.
219	* In the hilarious TranslationTrainWreck ''VideoGame/PokemonVietnameseCrystal'', "Drugs" (aka Potions) heal a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'''s lost hit points.
220	* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' pairs this with DrugsAreBad for a deliberately ambiguous situation the player can make their own decisions about.
221	** The protagonist is an AddledAddict and the poverty and depression of the city is highlighted by its massive culture of drug abuse, but drugs are genuinely useful in gameplay, temporarily boosting your stats enough to overcome difficult checks and even allowing you to level up skills past your skill caps. (Of course, they damage your health, and, as stats turn into personality flaws at higher levels, can be used to turn yourself into a very extreme and annoying person.) It's also very clear that the drug with which the protagonist is doing most damage to his life with is legal, socially acceptable [[AlcoholInducedStupidity alcohol]], with his favourite illegal drug (amphetamines) used less for its own effects and more to allow him to power through hangovers and pull all-nighters so he can drink more. (Jean, in the ending, will admit he'll put up with you dabbling with speed and hallucinogens so long as it means you aren't drinking.) Your partner will judge you for trying to get high while on the job, but respects your decision to use drugs as a valid method; in a late-game scene, Kim asks you if using amphetamines makes you a better cop, admitting he's genuinely curious about trying it himself.
222	** One of the reasons Dros was as disgusted by Klaasje as he was is because he saw her taking recreational drugs - not because they are destroying her body or getting her sucked into relationships with worthless men (although both those things are true), but because he [[FunHatingVillain loathes distraction and pleasure in all its forms]], seeing it as counterrevolutionary. Considering the way Dros resolves this disgust, and the fact that Klaasje herself is agitating towards a revolution that may actually happen, it comes across as if the game is saying that chemical fun is just as legitimate a joy as other kinds of fun.
223	** Ruby will defend the drug trade, saying that the problem with drugs isn't because the drugs themselves are bad, but the fact that the people of Martinaise are forced to overuse them due to living in a society where they have nothing else good in their lives.
224	** While characters who have exposed themselves to the Pale are psychologically altered by the experience in ways that they mostly admit aren't beneficial, they also have a HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs that allows them to see things other characters can't. Paledriver describes her Pale exposure as 'a heroic dose', borrowing a term from psychonaut culture to describe massive doses of substances done in order to explore the deepest depths of the subconscious or reality, and she is happy with her ability to slip into the golden ages of the past. Joyce has been highly overexposed and it has left her with insomnia, but also with an Olympian view of the world that allows her to understand the workings of history and value people's lives far more than the pursuit of profit. Tiago used exposure to the Pale to recover from alcoholism and leave a life of crime - even though your character, and most others, view it as having swapped one addiction for another.
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226
227	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
228	* Two different and unrelated subversions in ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'':
229	** The protagonist enjoys smoking weed with Kathy, and they come up with some cool creative ideas. However, Kathy falls asleep while at her computer, trying to get started.
230	** The marijuana-fueled threesome between the protagonist, Kathy, and Heidi is fun, especially for the protagonist, [[spoiler:but Heidi starts acting weird afterward, and she later reveals that casual sex isn’t her thing. The drugs were just drawing her into something she’d rather not do.]]
231	* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'' and its sequels has many instances of characters using recreational drugs (mainly Polly the hedonistic ghost in the first game), and makes it clear that recreational drug use is okay as long as you're responsible about it, differentiating between drug use and drug abuse and that you should seek help if you start abusing drugs.
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233
234	[[folder:Web Comics]]
235	* ''Webcomic/AmongTheChosen'': Hardcore stimulants are used often and explicitly. It is implied that the Addicaine commanders have the option of using heavy-duty combat drugs to bring their troops up to battle-ready status.
236	* ''Webcomic/Persona2Win'': The main character constantly takes unidentified pills when he is angered (which is a lot) to keep himself from killing the idiots around him.
237	* Kinda-sorta in the case of Gamzee from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. If he isn't [[TheStoner stoned off his gourd]], he remembers that he's a descendant of the subjuggulators, and becomes an extremely dangerous MonsterClown.
238	* Being a parody and satire of ComicBook/ChickTracts, the strip ''[[http://foo.ca/wp/chick-tract-satire/lsd-history/ Chemical Salvation?]]'' naturally uses this trope, arguing that LSD has numerous medical uses as well as allowing [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs spiritual awakening]], and glosses over any negative side-effects. It even suggests that [[MoralGuardians conservative Christians worldwide]] conspired to prohibit the drug on trumped-up charges so that the general public wouldn’t find out that religious experiences have a purely natural cause, thereby discrediting religion.
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240
241	[[folder:Web Video]]
242	* ''WebVideo/TheHookerWithAHeartOfGold'': The Hooker's cocaine habit [[DrunkenMaster only seems to make her stronger]], and Dr Rogen theorizes that it might make the heart work more efficiently.
243	* ''[[WebAnimation/TacoMan Taco-Man: The Game Master]]'' teaches that cocaine makes an effective anti-depressant at the end of the fourth episode.
244	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYbfmkuRjkY This commercial]] for Briteside Cannabis (a ''real'' company), as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VAa4h4RQ0k this one]] for Weedinol.
245	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM5mgqcAPbw This]] parody of "Stand" by Music/{{REM}} called "Hemp".
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247
248	[[folder:Websites]]
249	* ''Website/{{Erowid}}'', which [[http://www.erowid.org is intended to be a neutral reference]] cataloging drugs and their effects, has a lot of DrugsAreBad ("Addiction," "Difficult Experiences," "Train Wrecks and Trip Disasters") but also has its share of Drugs Are Good ("Glowing Experiences" and "Health" have stories like this).
250	* ''Quaaludebottle.com'', has [[http://quaaludebottle.com/stories.html "Quaalude Stories"]] in which Baby Boomers and first wave Gen Xers fondly recall getting high on ludes during the [[TheSeventies seventies]] and [[TheEighties early eighties]].
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252
253	[[folder:Western Animation]]
254	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the "420" episode, Brian starts a campaign to legalize marijuana and Mayor Adam West signs a bill that makes it legal in Quahog and [[EverybodyMustGetStoned everyone starts smoking pot]]. The town's overall quality of life improves as a result.
255	* Generally the message in ''WesternAnimation/MajorLazer,'' mainly regarding pot.
256	* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob'' episode "Reagan & Mychelle's Hive School Reunion" includes a MushroomSamba which helps the constantly angry Glenn Dolphman let go of his anger, and ends with an endorsement for Pscilocybin mushroom therapy from Andre.
257	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS31E17HighwayToWell Highway To Well]]", a jar full of cannabis-infused gummies turns cranky Agnes Skinner into a nice person. In fact, the whole purpose of the Well + Good store is to promote wellness through the use of its cannabis products, although [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply its staff use the stuff just to get high]].
258	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': the subplot of the episode "Ike's Wee Wee" has Mr. Mackey, the school counselor that's always saying "drugs are bad, hmmkey?", being fired and evicted, which leads to him experimenting alcohol, marijuana and LSD on the streets. He ends up becoming much more relaxed because of that and even marries a hippie woman. When the school sends the A-Team to bring him to Rehab so he could have his job again, he insists that he's happy with his new lifestyle (the A-Team doesn't listen, however, and Mr. Mackey is [[StatusQuoIsGod back to normal]] by the end of the episode). What's more, the A-Team found Mackey after he'd been ''off'' drugs for quite a while. He needed the drugs to cope with how badly things went for him, but once Mackey's life improved he didn't need them anymore.
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260
261	[[folder:Real Life]]
262	* Psilocybin, the psychedelic drug found in "[[MushroomSamba magic mushrooms]]", has been found in [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8399008/ recent research]] to reduce symptoms of depression, as has ketamine.
263	* A large number of both anecdotal reports and scientific studies over the decades have implicated LSD and psilocybin as potential ways of treating obsessive-compulsive disorder.
264	* Anecdotal and scientific reports also suggests alcoholism and other addictions could perhaps be addressed by LSD, psilocybin and ketamine (or "esketamine" in its clinical form.)[[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237681/]]
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