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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Will''': Can somebody call me an ambulance? Because I'm in trouble. Time is moving really, really slowly, and everything is flat. I need you to call me an ambulance, or failing that, my mummy. I really want my mummy because, and I'm not being dramatic, but I think I might be dead. Is that clear? Mummy or ambulance.
''[two scenes later]''
'''Paramedic''': ''[incredulously]'' Did you ''really'' take cannabis?|''[[The Inbetweeners]]''}}
Marijuana is one of the less potent psychoactive drugs. It causes euphoria, thirst, hunger and occasionally paranoia, and it can also cause your thought processes to become one long string of [[Fridge Logic]] and/or [[Fridge Brilliance]] moments (which may or may not be remembered once the effects wear off). It also takes a little while to get used to
You wouldn't know that from the movies, though.
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It is worth mentioning that large doses of marijuana can produce hallucinations in some people. The array of effects experienced from any dose vary considerably from person to person. Research into this effect may be partly responsible for the myth, along with journalists that ignored how large a dose the "psychonauts" used and what counts as a hallucination to experimental psychologists.
May be a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]], especially in older works. Seldom played straight in recent decades, but there are exceptions. Often overlaps with [[Scare'Em Straight]]. [[Sub
Continuing on this trend, often when the effects of LSD are shown, they are powerfully overstated. Even on low doses, characters will experience detailed hallucinations and Datura-esque delusions, when in reality a single tab of LSD will usually only give someone visual distortions that are readily distinguished from reality.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJdVEoVbgg&feature=related This PSA] If your dog is talking to you, chances are you have more than weed in your system.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Leigharch in the ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' anime hallucinates pretty wildly using marijuana, '''while driving'''. Averted in the manga, where his drug of choice is cocaine.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
** This is kept in [[The Musical]] remake, although now all exaggerations are played purely for laughs.
* ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' features something more like "marijuana is PCP": Sam's mom eats one hash brownie and goes completely insane, even assaulting a full-grown man. Granted she's just shy of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] as it is, but still...
** Michael J. Nelson of [[
** Justified in that pot brownies are vastly more potent than smoking the weed itself. Even veteran smokers are prone to freaking out if they eat more than one or two at a time, and this only gets worse if nobody tells the person that there's weed in the snacks.
* Used and then Justified in ''[[Training Day]]'', the marijuana was laced with PCP.
* Inverted in ''[[The Men Who Stare
* ''[[Class of Nuke 'Em High]]'' has an excuse for
* ''[[Half Baked]]'' uses this trope, but at least it only seems to apply to the ''really good shit'' Thurgood gets from the government lab. Semi-justified in that it is so good that other people can see your hallucinations too.
* ''[[
* Uniquely reversed by Otto Preminger's "[[Keep Circulating the Tapes|lost]]" drug-culture fiasco ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063612/ Skidoo]'': The film's climax involves spiking the food supply of a prison with LSD as part of an escape plan. However, [[Critical Research Failure|only one member of the cast or crew had actually had any experience with the drug]] ({{spoiler|[[The Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]]'s final film credit}}), and they weren't anywhere near that sequence. So, lacking any sort of direction, everyone settled for either acting ''drunk'', or [[Large Ham|trying to compensate with volume]]. How they got Timothy Leary to endorse that is a mystery.
* ''[[Friday (
* In the [[The Seventies|early seventies]] educational film ''Focus on LSD'', marijuana and hashish are listed as psychedelic drugs along with LSD, mescaline, peyote, STP and psiliocybin.
== [[Literature]] ==
* According to ''Doctor Wood, Modern Wizard of the Laboratory'', Robert Wood (patron saint of [[Education Through Pyrotechnics]]) in his youth once tested whether it's true that cannabis is hallucinogenic ''when ingested''
** As if he'd never heard of a pot brownie.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* There's an episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' which parodies
** Martin spends most of his "trip" thinking he feels strange because of the cough syrup he took that morning. There ''is'' a brand of cough syrup well known for mild LSD-like effects.
** In the same episode, Niles ate a normal brownie which he thought was a hash-brownie and started showing the symptoms of being stoned at once until he was made aware of the mistake, at which point he instantly "sobered-up".
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* Parodied on ''[[Monk]]''. Monk (mistakenly) thinks he's inhaled some weed smoke and starts freaking out. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. "I'm getting the munchies! Oh God! Reefer Madness!"
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'': the scenes where Eric has to talk to his parents while high, and the wallpaper behind them is moving/swirling and his parents swap heads.
** There was one episode where Leo accidentally fed his marijuana stash to his dog, who ends up having such a hallucination.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Taxi]]'', which features a flashback to Reverend Jim's college days, where he is a straight-arrow book-grinding nerd named James Caldwell. He gets talked into eating a marijuana-laced brownie: one bite, and his expression instantly (and hilariously) dissolves into Reverend Jim's crazed bug-eyed stare.
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* In ''[[Party Down]]'', Roman eats multiple pot brownies without realizing they're laced. He curls up the bathroom and calls for an ambulance, because he is either dead or soon will be. After the paramedics show up, the hippie fellow who baked the brownies leads Roman on a journey to meet his spirit animal and Roman writes an entire screenplay (on the toilet paper). The paramedics take him to the hospital, not because he's overdosing on pot, but because they've never seen anyone that high before and want to show the nurses.
** And strangely enough, about 75% justified. [[Party Down]] is pretty good about portraying drugs realistically and it's specifically mentioned that Roman ingested about a tenth of an ounce of high-grade marijuana. For someone not accustomed to the effects of marijuana, eating that much certainly could make one feel as if they were going out of their mind. The other 25% is [[Rule of Funny]].
* In ''[[
== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* During his 2002 "Live on Broadway" special, [[Robin Williams]] came down on the IOC for treating marijuana usage in athletes on the same level as steroids:
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* Played straight by [[Woody Allen]], who describes marijuana as a "major hallucinogen," and recounts an incident where he took a puff of the wrong cigarette and ended up trying to hijack an elevator to Cuba.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://gunshowcomic.com/420 This] ''[[Shrek]]''-based ''[[
* ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'': [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=037.jpg SUDDENLY WEED DREAMS]. <small>poofl</small> Considering [[Stylistic Suck|what comic we're talking about]], it was probably intentionally invoked.
* Squigley's marijuana use in ''[[Sinfest]]'' looks like this at first, but it eventually becomes clear that he's not hallucinating that he can fly while stoned. (He describes himself as a "shaman," and his powers are effective even in Hell, though they stop working in the [[Anti-Magic|reality zone]].)
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* In ''[[Clone High]]'', ''raisins'' are like LSD...[[Shaped Like Itself|ON ACID]]!
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', the episode where Peter and Lois had a band. They used Marijuana as the group's muse and it doesn't take much to get them completely baked, rolling on the floor and moaning nonsense (while thinking that they were singing a great song while unicorns danced in the background). They had similar trips throughout out the episode, another of which involved them licking Chris under the hallucination that he was a sundae. (To be fair, though, the "incoherent off-key rambling mistaken for fantastic singing" effect it had on their talent show performance is a pretty accurate depiction.) [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in the series' pot-centric episode, "420."
* In an episode of ''[[South Park]]';, Mr.
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