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He is only a user, not a supplier or distributer at all. Not the trope.


* In ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', [[spoiler:Will Simpson]] gets hooked on some combat pills he is supplied and goes nuts (not helped by him not taking the "cooldown" pills), subsequently causing his FaceHeelTurn.
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* ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'': Winston and his friends who run a weed growing operation in an indistrial building are constantly high on their own product, leading to Dog thinking they are an easy target for a robbery.

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* ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'': Winston and his friends who run a weed growing operation in an indistrial industrial building are constantly high on their own product, leading to Dog thinking they are an easy target for a robbery.



** The trauma from seeing Brandon's dead body after hinting the Barksdale crew of his wherabouts drives Wallace to start snorting the product he's supposed to be selling.

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** The trauma from seeing Brandon's dead body after hinting the Barksdale crew of his wherabouts whereabouts drives Wallace to start snorting the product he's supposed to be selling.



* Subverted in ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours''. Since the game's first mission starts during the last gunfight of the movie, Tony Montana is high off yeyo much like he was in the movie, [[spoiler:but manages to kill The Skull, the guy who empties a shotgun in his back in the movie, and escapes when the cops arrive]]. Once Tony begins to build his empire again, he completely swears off cocaine for the rest of the game.

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* Subverted in ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours''. Since the game's first mission starts during the last gunfight of the movie, Tony Montana is high off yeyo much like he was in the movie, [[spoiler:but manages to kill The Skull, the guy who empties a shotgun in his back in the movie, and escapes when the cops arrive]]. Once Tony begins to build his empire again, he [[GoingColdTurkey completely swears off cocaine cocaine]] for the rest of the game.



* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': This trope is the reason why dwarves have the [[{{Unobtanium}} lyrium]] market cornered. Their natural resistance to magic means they're the only people who can regularly come in contact with it without coming under any negative side-affects.

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* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': This trope is the reason why dwarves have the [[{{Unobtanium}} lyrium]] market cornered. Their natural resistance to magic means they're the only people who can regularly come in contact with it without coming under any negative side-affects.side effects.



* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS3E3TheBullyJustOneBite "Just One Bite"]], Spongebob finds out that Squidward has never eaten a Krabby Patty, and spends most of the episode trying to get him to try one. When Squidward finally relents, he claims it's horrible... only to lock himself in the Krabby Patty vault and start devouring them. Once he's out and an ambulance is called to take him to the hospital from [[MadeOfExplodium explosive]] overeating, the driver wistfully says he remembers his first Krabby Patty too.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS3E3TheBullyJustOneBite "Just One Bite"]], Spongebob finds out that Squidward has never eaten a Krabby Patty, and spends most of the episode trying to get him to try one.one despite Squidward's insistence that he'd hate it. When Squidward finally relents, he claims it's horrible... only for it to lock turn out he was lying to save face, as [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam he actually loved it]]. Over the course of the episode, his desire for more Krabby Patties reaches the point of an obsession reminiscent of addiction. This eventually reaches a point where he locks himself in the Krabby Patty vault and start starts devouring them. Once he's out and an ambulance is called to take him to the hospital from [[MadeOfExplodium explosive]] overeating, the driver wistfully says he remembers his first Krabby Patty too.
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* Music/{{Necro}} demonstrates his problem in "I Need Drugs"
-->Got these crack dealers chasing me through the cement jungle\\
'Cause they gave me shit to sell and yo I smoked the whole bundle
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin You'll]] Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack" by controversial Houston rapper Viper, who posits that his habit of test smoking his product makes him better at selling it.
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* ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'': Mobster Kingpin runs a bootlegging racket amongst other illegal ventures. The narration points out that he keeps a personal stash of his own candy liquor, a spirit so potent that it gives its drinker vast amounts of power when in the Imaginary Realm. Things get desperate enough for him that he downs a bottle of sugar-free candy liquor to give himself an edge, which causes him to descend into literal monstrous acts[[note]]as in "[[LiteralMetaphor demonic JRPG final boss]]" monsterous[[/note]] and eventually leads to his downfall.

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* ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'': Mobster Kingpin runs a bootlegging racket amongst other illegal ventures. The narration points out that he keeps a personal stash of his own candy liquor, a spirit so potent that it gives its drinker vast amounts of power when in the Imaginary Realm. Things get desperate enough for him that he downs a bottle of sugar-free candy liquor to give himself an edge, edge over the heroes, which causes him to descend into committing literal monstrous acts[[note]]as in "[[LiteralMetaphor demonic JRPG final boss]]" monsterous[[/note]] and eventually leads to his downfall.
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* ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'': Mobster Kingpin runs a bootlegging racket amongst other illegal ventures. The narration points out that he keeps a personal stash of his own candy liquor, a spirit so potent that it gives its drinker vast amounts of power when in the Imaginary Realm. Things get desperate enough for him that he downs a bottle of sugar-free candy liquor to give himself an edge, which causes him to descend into literal monstrous acts[[note]]as in "[[LiteralMethaphor demonic JRPG final boss]]" monsterous[[/note]] and eventually leads to his downfall.

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* ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'': Mobster Kingpin runs a bootlegging racket amongst other illegal ventures. The narration points out that he keeps a personal stash of his own candy liquor, a spirit so potent that it gives its drinker vast amounts of power when in the Imaginary Realm. Things get desperate enough for him that he downs a bottle of sugar-free candy liquor to give himself an edge, which causes him to descend into literal monstrous acts[[note]]as in "[[LiteralMethaphor "[[LiteralMetaphor demonic JRPG final boss]]" monsterous[[/note]] and eventually leads to his downfall.
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* ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'': Mobster Kingpin runs a bootlegging racket amongst other illegal ventures. The narration points out that he keeps a personal stash of his own candy liquor, a spirit so potent that it gives its drinker vast amounts of power when in the Imaginary Realm. Things get desperate enough for him that he downs a bottle of sugar-free candy liquor to give himself an edge, which causes him to descend into literal monstrous acts[[note]]as in "[[LiteralMethaphor demonic JRPG final boss]]" monsterous[[/note]] and eventually leads to his downfall.
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* ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'': Winston and his friends who run a weed growing operation in an indistrial building are constantly high on their own product, leading to Dog thinking they are an easy target for a robbery.


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** Sherrod, Bubbles' protoge in season four, works as a corner boy while also developing an addiction to the product, which ultimately leads to [[spoiler:his death from a poisoned vial Bubbles meant for the junkie who keeps robbing him]].


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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoOnline'': The Fooliganz make LSD, and also use it in high quantities.
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* Alpha in ''[[Literature/TheShipWho PartnerShip]]'' is a ClandestineChemist who partakes in a bit of her own product, which she also provides to the other members of the Nyota 5. Because she's quite cautious with it, not using the harder stuff, and the member who's most into the drugs doesn't have an "addictive personality", none of them suffer ill effects whatsoever.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': When the team try to become drug dealers after ISIS gets shut down in season 5, Pam gets addicted to cocaine. It makes her erratic and aggressive and cuts into their supply. By the time season 6 rolls around, several months after the Season 5 finale, she's managed to kick the habit ([[AddictionReplacement returning to her old addictions to food, alcohol and random sex]]).

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': When the team try to become drug dealers after ISIS gets shut down in season 5, Pam gets addicted to cocaine. It makes her erratic and aggressive and cuts into their supply. By the time season 6 rolls around, several months after the Season 5 finale, she's managed to kick the habit ([[AddictionReplacement ([[AddictionDisplacement returning to her old addictions to food, alcohol and random sex]]).
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* In ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'', BigBad Poppy has a very strict policy against this, with [[ImAHumanitarian unpleasant consequences]] for any members of the Golden Circle dumb enough to do so; too bad nobody warned Angel...

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* In ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'', BigBad Poppy has a very strict policy against this, with [[ImAHumanitarian unpleasant consequences]] for any members of the Golden Circle dumb enough to do so; too bad nobody warned Angel... Considering the drugs in question are designed to hold every drug user on the planet hostage with a progression of TaintedVeins, PsychoSerum, AndIMustScream, and CruelAndUnusualDeath, getting high on it is even more TooDumbToLive than is usual for this trope.

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