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* An episode of ''[[Silent Moebius]]'' deals with a drug known as Dommel, which is a very powerful performance-enhancing drug... with a tendency to mutate its users into hideous monsters before dissolving them into a puddle of goo. It's extracted from the body of an demon from another dimension.
* Similarly, ''[[Togainu no Chi]]'' has Line, which increases strength and reduces sanity.
* ''[[One Piece]]''
** Energy Steroid; the [[Big Bad]] of the Fishman Island Arc in uses this, as does his crew. Taking one pill doubles your strength...but also shortens your life. They foolishly use it too much, and by the end of the Arc, [[Karma Houdini Warranty| all of them have been reduced to feeble old men.]]
** From the "Punk Hazard" arc, we also have
== Comic Books ==
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* The ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' has spaceweed (think [[Recycled in Space|space marijuana]]) and space fuel (a.k.a. Argon whiskey). Both are illegal in the Commonwealth, and both are highly prized by players for pacifying the [[Space Pirate]] population.
* ''[[Ultima VII]]'' features Silver Serpent Venom, which temporarily ups all your stats only to permanently damage them when it wears off. {{spoiler|Hilariously, using far too much of it at once will cause it to absurdly boost your character's stats when it wears off, making them [[A God Am I|ridiculously strong]] with some very odd effects on game mechanics.}}
* In ''[[Fallen London]]'', Prisoners' Honey is sort of like magical opium. In this case however, the experience is not a hallucination, the user is physically transported into a mystical alternate world called parabola. It is possible for two or more people to share this experience - some consider it a romantic interlude. Supposedly, Prisoner's Honey is created by devils from a flower that is cultivated in Hell, on behalf of the Fingerkings who rule Parabola - [[Money, Dear Boy| in exchange for a cut of the profits]]. The drug does not wreck the body as much as actual opium does (the player can and does use it for many tasks, including seduction and subterfuge), but “honey mazed addicts” are common sites in the seedier crime areas of London.
** There is a much darker type of this drug called Gaoler’s Honey. Produced mostly in Hell itself, the devils who make it imprison captured humans in cages, where they are set upon by the bees that pollinate the flowers used to make the honey. (As shown in the storyline where this is important, these prisoners are clearly in agony, the insects crawling in and out of every body orifice as they scream in agony. The player is expected to kill the jailers and liberate them.) Using this form of the honey causes the user to enter the dreams of these unfortunate prisoners, which only tortures them further. It is believed that the Empress' children became addicted to Gaoler's Honey, and that is the reason they [[Humanoid Abomination|turned into monsters]]. Some bloodthirsty pirates are also known to be addicted to it.
** There is one even rarer and even darker version called Cardinals Honey, which is a byproduct of the Gaoler’s Honey as it is produced when one of the prisoners dies as a result of its production. Whoever uses this form of honey (which only a madman would do willingly) is transported into the dreams of the dead victim - never to return, sentenced to an eternal [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. {{spoiler| At the end of the Nemesis storyline, the player decides to do just that to Mr Cups, and should they not have second thoughts and give Cups the antidote, the act ensures a crossing of the [[Moral Event Horizon]].}}
== Web Comics ==
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** Bliss is a hallucinogenic drug that the trio obtain in the Den of Wonders in the Black Light District. It causes all three of them to experience [[Mushroom Samba]] hallucinations.
** Luci smokes a pipe which uses Twinkletown Gigglebud, which is also used by the elves in Elfwood; this is clearly a thinly veiled reference to cannabis.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' had a [[Show Within a Show]] example, where the villain in the McBain movie was dealing swank, which is ten times more addictive than marijuana.
== Real Life ==
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