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* '''Double Subverted''': ...but then the [[Disney Acid Sequence|pink elephants]] she'd assumed were hallucinations suddenly rampage through town.
* '''Parodied''': Every single time [[Intoxication Ensues]], the intoxicated party comes out with some deep and significant prophecy.
* '''Zig Zagged''': It's kept ambiguous for as long as possible whether Alice's visions [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|were prophetic or nonsensical]], and it's hard to tell either way - some of her prophecies seem to come truer than others, but we don't know what she actually saw first-hand and we don't know whether [[You Can't Fight Fate]] is in effect or not.
* '''Averted''': People do drugs without seeing the future, and/or can see the future without taking drugs.
* '''Enforced''': "We want to make these people [[Noble Savage
* '''Lampshaded''': "How come he gets to see the future? When I smoke pot all I got was hungry, giggly and disoriented!"
* '''Invoked''': A tribal shaman lies about the drugs giving him visions because it allows him to (a) consolidate his position as spiritual leader and (b) get high.
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* '''Reconstructed''': The downsides to his methods are shown in full, but people can't ignore the fact that his visions inevitably come true. He has to wrestle with the fact that his abilities save the lives of others but are ruining his own.
* '''Played For Laughs''': In a modern high-school reimagining of ''[[Macbeth]]'', the three witches are comical stoner stereotypes.
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