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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Doctor of ''[[The Authority]]'' might qualify. Not sure if the drugs enhanced his powers or if he was just a particularly powerful junkie, though...
* The spacemen from ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* The Oracle in ''[[
* Johnny Depp's character in the film version of ''[[From Hell]]'' has opium-induced psychic visions.
* The Precogs or "Oracles" of ''[[Minority Report]]'' only have premonitions while sleeping, so they kept on heavy doses of drugs so that they're in a perpetual sleepy trance.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Isaac Mendes in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', although he eventually learns to use his powers without drugs.
* {{spoiler|The Wizard is [[Invoked Trope|kept this way]], as a means of controlling him,}} in the sci-fi channel miniseries ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]''.
* Colonial oracles in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* Interesting version in ''[[Misfits]]''; Curtis normally has [[Mental Time Travel]] abilities which only work [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|backwards]], but a power-reversing [[Fantastic Drug]] gives him a vision of the future.
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** Same applies to John of Revelation, albeit with the addition of bizarre symbolism.
* Traditional shamans in many historical and some modern cultures often use various ethnobotanicals, such as psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, peyote to induce transcendent states for spiritual purposes.
* The ancient, Vedic ("Indo-Aryan") inhabitants of India used "soma' to feel at one with the universe and induce some fairly wacky visions, if the poems they left behind are any indication. (Note that nobody knows from which plant, or what else, soma comes from. However you know now where [[Brave New World (
* There's a theory that Aztec mythology was full of feathered snakes and corn- or snake-headed deities and heart-ripping directly because of the amounts of mescaline and mushrooms (of the magic variety) their priests were using to induce visions. The heart-ripping probably caused by a horror trip.
* [[Aleister Crowley]] was by all reasonable measurements, a complete heroin/cocaine junkie. He did, however, found a religion, Thelema, and promote it. There are still Thelemites around today, too.
* [[Philip K. Dick]] went through some pretty strange epiphanies after a heroic dosage of sodium pentothal. See [http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo/weirdo1.htm The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick] (illustrated by Robert Crumb for a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]).
* [[wikipedia:Timothy Leary|Dr. Timothy Leary]] is a Real Life example from the Hippie Era. He coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out" and was a major promoter of the spiritual use of LSD. His advocates included many 60s/70s counterculture icons, including [[The Beatles]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Meatwad, from ''[[
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