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Subtrope of [[Society Marches On]]. See [[Eternal Sexual Freedom]] and [[High Times Future]] for modern mores working in the opposite direction.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[Transmetropolitan]]''. It seems like everyone does drugs all the time. It helps that they can fix any potential health effect. They're still illegal; it's just that almost nobody cares. They're still not good for you either, if certain descriptions of Spider's really bad days are to be taken at face value.
* Averted in Paul Pope's ''100%'' which is set in the near future, where marijuana cigarettes are legal.
* Averted in [[Judge Dredd]]. In Mega-City, coffee and sugar are illegal, since they are addictive. Synthetics are used instead, but synthi-coffe was too good and became considered addictive, so it was outlawed. Hence, people drink synthi-synthi-coffe.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Averted in the titular Culture of [[The Culture]] novels. "Drug glands" are in-built in most Culture biological citizens, and other ways of shooting for the rainbow exist, and are completely legal.
* Completely averted in ''[[Brave New World (
** In fact, they don't even have money anymore (at least we don't see it), people are just paid (by the government) in soma. When a couple of characters decide that maybe keeping everyone dosed and drugged all the time is ''bad'', they try to disrupt one of the weekly distributions of soma. A riot breaks out when the workers realize what they are up to.
* Often subverted, averted, or stomped upon in any [[Cyberpunk]] setting. And they usually do have more than one drug.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' - drugs are mostly kept offscreen, because addictive simsense chips have (yeah, right...) taken their place.
* Averted in ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' series by David Gerrold, who goes to some trouble to portray a society that's changed both technology-wise and socially. Legal marijuana farms and over-the-counter recreational drugs are mentioned.
* Used in a [[
* Several [[Philip K. Dick]] stories have the characters smoking brand-name marijuana cigarettes.
* ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat]]'' pops whatever pill he needs to get the job done, and although he's a criminal there's no mention of any of them being illegal.
* On Nulapeiron, the setting for John Meaney's books ''Paradox'', ''Context'' and ''Resolution'', there doesn't seem to be any substance controls, and many different recreational chemicals are commercially available including many sophisticated materials that act upon the mind to induce dream states and the like. Marijuana and alcohol seem to be the most common, and no-one appears to smoke tobacco.
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* In Gabrielle Zevin's ''[[All The Things Ive Done]]'', this is averted. Teens can drink all the alcohol they want, it's chocolate and other caffeine products that are banned.
* Played straight, [[Hilarious in Hindsight|retroactively]] inverted, and averted ''hard'' in ''[[House of the Scorpion]]''. The United States has cracked down on cocaine users and traffickers ([[Not in My Back Yard|at least within American borders]]) and Mexico retains bans similar to or slightly more strict than their pre-2009 laws (the book was written in 2002), but a country has arisen between the two that runs its entire economy on cocaine exports [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|and brain-damaged clone slaves]].
* In [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'': in early seasons the characters appear to live in the 1930s, drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. Partially subverted in the new series where 'Chamalla' is a legal hallucinogen sometimes used for religious purposes. And in one flashback President Roslin and Admiral Adama enjoy a an un-named substance strongly resembling Marijuana.
** ''[[Caprica]]'' averts this with the recent passing revelation that drugs have been legalized so as to quash any criminal market that may exist for them. ▼
Fighter pilots are encouraged to take stims, which can lead to addiction if not carefully monitored, as exemplified by Kat.
* In contradiction of the trope's description, both those drugs are used by main characters in ''[[Babylon 5]]''. As it turns out, there is very good reason that "Dust" is illegal--despite seemingly being Space Cocaine, it actually temporarily gives the user [[Psychic Powers]], namely the power to [[Mind Rape]] someone (which G'Kar does to Londo after he gets his hands on some). As for stims, which aren't actually illegal, a major plot arc is Doctor Franklin's addiction and recovery.▼
▲** ''[[Caprica]]'' averts this with the recent passing revelation that drugs have been legalized so as to quash any criminal market that may exist for them.
▲* In contradiction of the trope's description, both those drugs are used by main characters in ''[[Babylon 5]]''. As it turns out, there is very good reason that "Dust" is
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' has obviously no problem with drinking. Though, nicotine seems to have become obsolete. The only drug left seems to be 'Flash' which is used as eye drops.
* In the 1970-1 series ''[[UFO]]'' the characters smoke in computer rooms, medical areas, and closed environments like SHADO's underground headquarters, submarines and the Moonbase. Some scenes look like they've been filmed through a minor fog.
* Near-subverted in the second season of ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]'', set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: narcotics have been recently legalized, but this is presented as a symptom of the societal collapse that is in progress.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Somewhat justified the ''[[Crusader:
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' has Moon Sugar, which is basically cocaine, as well as a drug called Skooma, made with refined moon sugar, which is basically crack.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', a few drugs are mentioned. Red Sand and Hallex are both illegal narcotics of some kind (the former sounds like [[Recycled in Space|space cocaine]] and the latter like [[Recycled in Space|space ecstasy]]), and there's a substance called Minagen X3 encountered in a mission that makes your biotics unstable if you come in contact with it. Red Sand is related to minagen, they are both biotic inducing agents, red sand also melts your brain like minagen. Hallex isn't really illegal... what with it being Omega and all. You can also legally purchase Red Sand on Illum from a licensed provider
* Played with a bit in ''[[Eve Online]]''. While plain old street narcotics and heavy-dose, skill-affecting "combat boosters" are nearly universally illegal, there exist versions of the latter that are universally ''legal''; it's a bit like banning coffee, except for decaf.▼
Stims are mentioned several times as legal, and are common among military types. One mission has you getting some kind of stimulant for a human trade negotiator (who seems addicted). The product is legal, but he already used his monthly dose and isn't allowed any more. You can get him the stim or trick him by switching it for a tranquilizer.
▲* Played with a bit in ''[[
** And of course everything is legal in 0.0 space, where there is no police but that which the players muster themselves. And just like in the real world, drug manufacturing is quite profitable.
* In the ''[[Wing Commander (
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Bender on ''[[Futurama]]'' smokes and drinks constantly. The alcohol is [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that robots use it as fuel, and Bender will act "drunk" if he hasn't had a drink in a while. As for the cigars, "[[Smoking Is Cool|they make me look cool]]." The existence of other drugs is suggested. In "My Three Suns", for example, a junkie tries to buy crack from a vending machine (but the bottle catches on the spring), and in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television", Farnsworth's and Hermes' kids are caught with one of Hermes' "cigars
Bizarrely, cocaine seems to be legal, as it is openly sold in vending machines. However, marijuana seems to be still illegal, as Hermes makes frequent references to "flushing things", and "that's not a cigar...and it's not mine"; in the election episode, there's also a lobby for the legalization of hemp. The episode "Three Hundred Big Boys" has the same junkie say "No more cheap crack-houses for me!", and head for a huge building with a large sign reading "CRACK MANSION".
* The [[Narm]]-tastic PSA ''[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/17/drug-avengers-video/ The Drug Avengers]'' plays this so hard that the main reason humans are kept out of [[The Federation]] is because people still use drugs on Earth.
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