Marijuana Is LSD/Playing With

Basic Trope: Marijuana (or any drug, for that matter) causes powerful hallucinations and/or extreme disassociation.

• Straight: A person smokes a joint of marijuana, and suffers vivid hallucinations and/or loses concentration.
• Exaggerated: The hallucination is extremely bizarre and frightening.
  • The person goes on a Vision Quest.
• Justified: The drug is extremely experimental, or is laced with a much more powerful drug.
• Inverted: A person takes LSD, but it has the same effects as marijuana in Real Life
• Subverted: A person smokes lots of marijuana, but the audience never sees it kicking in.
• Double Subverted: Only to realize that the drug he was smoking was not marijuana, and the person then smokes marijuana and then suffers the effects.
• Parodied: Someone thinks he smoked marijuana, and starts going through the motions, despite not actually inhaling any smoke.
  • Someone hallucinates after drinking a single sip of coffee.
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: Sometimes marijuana has these effects, and sometimes it doesn't.
• Averted: Someone smokes marijuana, but suffers no effects, or has more realistic ones.
• Enforced: Moral Guardians wanted to make marijuana to be worse in the series to scare kids from using that.
• Lampshaded: "I hear purple!"
• Invoked: Someone blows marijuana smoke at someone, or gets the person to inadvertently smoke marijuana, knowing that the person wills suffer these side effects.
• 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!"
• Conversed: "It's like some priggish moral guardian wanted to make pot seem incredibley scary and terrible...(puff)"

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