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Author: Xtifr

Dec 21st 2012 at 7:50:44 PM

This has been around since at least the sixties, though it was more common in underground works back then.

I'm also wondering if things like ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' count?

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* In the Radio/FiresignTheatre's ''The Giant Rat of Sumatra'' comedy album, the protagonist Hemlock Stones, the Great Defective, used huge amounts of nose candy (cocaine) to help him solve the mystery. (Unlike the [[Literature/SherlockHolmes character he was parodying]], who only used cocaine ''between'' cases, to distract himself.)

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* Gilbert Shelton had a couple:
** ''TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' spent most of their time getting high or trying to get high. Without drugs, they fall into a depressed stupor, and they frequently consumed specific drugs to escape from particularly perilous situations.
** ''Dealer [=McDope=]'', a spin-off of the previous, featured the on-going adventures of the world-trotting dope dealer.

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* In Chester Anderson's {{Hugo|Award}}-nominated ''The Butterfly Kid'' (first book of ''Literature/TheGreenwichTrilogy''), the protagonists' extensive experience with drugs allows them to cope with the effects of the alien's "reality pill" and use the manifested hallucinations to fight off the aliens.
* In the ''Literature/MaridAudran'' series, Audran regularly uses his favorite "triphets" (a form of speed) to help him keep up with and out-think his opponents.

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* The title track of the New Riders of the Purple Sage's album ''Panama Red'' was about a fast-talking, dope-smoking cowboy hero. (The name comes from a variety of marijuana that was very popular in the late 1960s.)