History Main / DrugsAreGood

* 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, [[UsefulNotes/BeerCommercials can't show it being drunk on camera]]), but it can show you some cool-looking people holding beer at a party.

* ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'' is 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.)

* Anecdotal evidence 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/]]

* Anecdotal evidence also suggests alcoholism and other addictions could perhaps by LSD, psilocybin and ketamine (or "esketamine" in its clinical form.)[[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237681/]]

* 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 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. Invocations 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.

* ''[[LetsPlay/TacoMan Taco-Man: The Game Master]]'' teaches that cocaine makes an effective anti-depressant at the end of the fourth episode.

* In ''Series/That70sShow'', the main characters are all recreational users of weed, and suffer no ill effects from it.

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Highway To Well", a jar full of cannabis-infused gummies turns cranky Mrs. 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Highway To Well", a jar full of cannabis-infused gummies turns cranky Mrs. 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 [[GettingHighOffTheirOwnSupply its staff use the stuff just to get high]].