Basic Trope: Marijuana (or any drug, for that matter) causes powerful hallucinations and/or extreme disassociation.
- Straight: Bob smokes a joint of marijuana, and suffers vivid hallucinations and/or loses concentration.
- Exaggerated:
- The hallucination is extremely bizarre and frightening.
- Bob goes on a Vision Quest.
- Downplayed: Bob smokes marijuana and experiences aggression that is usually associated with PCP.
- Justified:
- Bob had a mental condition that made him already prone to hallucinations; the pot reacted badly with him and pushed him over the edge.
- Unbeknownst to Bob, the marijuana was laced with actual LSD.
- The Placebo Effect causes Bob, who equates Marijauna with LSD, to hallucinate every time he takes it.
- This rather unique batch of Marijuana was cultivated to have those effects.
- Inverted:
- Bob takes LSD, but it makes him relaxed, lazy, and overly hungry, like marijuana in Real Life.
- Bob smokes marijuana, and there is no effect.
- Subverted:
- Bob smokes lots of marijuana, but the audience never sees it kicking in.
- Bob smokes a joint and has a hallucination, only it was a very lucid dream.
- It turns out Bob actually has undiagnosed schizophrenia that just happened to flare up when he was smoking a joint, leading him to assume it was the marijuana that did it when in fact it was a coincidence..
- It is explicitly the context which causes a mental breakdown and not the drug itself. After a Trauma Conga Line the paranoia combined with his uptight family were too much.
- Double Subverted: Only to realize that what he was smoking was not marijuana; Bob then smokes marijuana and incurs the effects.
- Parodied:
- Bob thinks he smoked marijuana and starts going through the motions, despite not actually inhaling any smoke.
- Bob hallucinates after drinking a single sip of (decaffeinated) coffee.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes marijuana has these effects, and sometimes it doesn't.
- Averted: Bob smokes marijuana, which has affects more in line with real life.
- Enforced:
- Moral Guardians wanted to make marijuana to be worse in the series to scare kids from using it.
- The show's writers know little to nothing about drugs and assumes that all of them cause hallucinations.
- Lampshaded: "I hear purple!"
- Invoked: Alice blows marijuana smoke at Bob or gets him to smoke marijuana inadvertently, knowing he'll suffer these side effects.
- Exploited: Charlie uses Bob's hallucinations to steal from him.
- Defied: The person who prepared the pot makes sure it isn't contaminated with LSD, so his/her customers get the effects they are looking for and come back.
- Discussed: "That's not what happens when you smoke pot! That's what LSD does."
- Conversed: "This show is just plain weird! It's like some priggish moral guardian wanted to make pot seem incredibly scary and terrible."
- Implied: Bob: "So, that was pot? That was freakier than I expected."
- Played for Laughs:
- The effects of marijuana consumption depicted are laughably off.
- What Bob sees is itself hilarious.
- Played for Drama: Bob has a life-threatening bad trip while on pot.
- Played for Horror: What Bob sees comes to be recurring Nightmare Fuel for him.
- Deconstructed: If marijuana has the same effects as LSD, then pot smokers pose an even greater public safety risk than they believe.
- Reconstructed: A pot grower develops a weaker strain of marijuana for people who want a buzz but don't want to threaten to harm other people.
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