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In the grand spectrum of media-depicted drug addiction, most junkies are seen as anything from piteous to terrifying. Tales abound of the superhuman strength of a PCP addict, or the despair of a crack addict, or the sheer horrors of a bad acid trip..

Not so much the pot smoker. Potheads are funny, mellow dudes interested in a good time wherein nobody gets hurt. Stoners are cool. They won't try to stab somebody because they think he's Dracula, or claw their eyes out because there are beetles in them. And it's not as if someone's going to complain, lest they get arrested for illegal drug use.

See also [[The Stoner]], [[G-Rated Drug]], [[Erudite Stoner]].

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== [[Comics]] ==
* Matt MacLimore's stoner relative who pops up for a short period in ''[[Dork Tower]]'' and is never heard from again. His main claim to fame is smoking Matt's wargames terrain.
* Entire cast of ''[[Horndog]]''.

== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Barret in the ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5422982/1/Time_Paradox Time Paradox]''.
** '''SPYDAHS!!'''

== [[Film]] ==
* The Cheech and Chong movies.
* ''[[Pineapple Express]]''.
* ''~Grandma's Boy~''.
* Brad Pitt played a funny stoner in ''[[True Romance]]''.
* This trope is also the whole point of ''[[Dazed and Confused]]''.
* The basis of the comedy in ''~Dude, Where's My Car?~''.
* Leonardo Nam plays Roy, a comic stoner, in ''[[The Perfect Score]]''.
* ''[[Half Baked]]''.
* [[Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle]].
* Michael McKean's character in ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'' isn't actually seen smoking dope, but...
* [[View Askewniverse|Jay and Silent Bob]].
* [[Good Burger|Ed the Good Burger guy]].
* The eponymous alien in ''[[Paul]]''.
*  [[The Big Lebowski|Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski]].
** He's ''NOT'' Mister Lebowski. He's the Dude. So that's what you call him, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsogswrH6ck you know...]
* In ''[[Platoon]]'', some stoners, including Johnny Depp, dancing with statues and "getting high". They're not so funny [[The Vietnam War|when it gets to fight]].
* In ''[[Jackie Brown]]'', Melanie sure fits in. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-8WrdkT67M Louis didn't like it].

== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The main cast (but especially the four guys) in ''[[That '70s Show]]''. Scenes showing them smoking pot (called the Circle) occur in every episode.
** That goes double for Leo.
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' often uses this trope when it [[Flash Back|flashes back]] to the [[Main Characters]]' college years, though [[The Narrator]] always refers to the activity they take part in as [[Unusual Euphemism|"eating a sandwich,"]] [[Unreliable Narrator|complete with the joints transformed into hoagie sandwiches.]]

== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Truth in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''.

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Homestuck]]'', where Gamzee Makara (who is [[The Stoner]], but from a [[Fantastic Drug]]) is treated this way at first. Later, [[No Medication for Me|he runs out]] and [[Deconstructed Trope|realises the drug was actually rotting his brain]], and in addition to having [[Juggalo|his religion]] mocked, this makes him [[Face Heel Turn|flip his shit]] and become an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] [[Monster Clown]].
* ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'' plays this every so often, or at least tries to - we wouldn't really know if not for the ''stooned'' imagery everywhere. ''[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=037.jpg SUDDENLY WEED DREAMS]''.
* Main Premise of [[Drugs and Kisses|Drugsand Kisses]]

== [[Web Original]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161211173114/http://www.thathigh.com/ That High], which is basically FML, but for stoners instead of unlucky people.
* ''[[The Onion]]'' article [http://www.theonion.com/articles/everyone-involved-in-pizzas-preparation-delivery-p,504/ Everyone Involved in Pizza's Preparation, Delivery, Purchase Extremely High].
** Resident columnist Jim Anchower.
* [[Bum Reviews|Chester A. Bum]] often gives hints on being a stoner.

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Shaggy from ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' may or may not be an actual stoner, but how can people ''not'' jump to that conclusion? He's always hungry (he eats ''dog treats'', for crying out loud), he's always freaking out over monsters, he thinks his dog (Scooby) can talk, and he even looks and speaks like a hippie stereotype. Talk about [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
** William Hanna And Joseph Barbera patterned the Scooby-Doo characters after the characters in [[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]], a 19''50s'' sitcom featuring [[Dawson Casting|Dawson casted]] "teenage" characters. Shaggy is an [[Expy]] of Maynard G. Krebs (played by a pre-[[Gilligan's Island]] Bob Denver), the show's resident ''beatnik''. Freddy was Dobie, Velma was Zelda, and so forth. Not sure if drugs factored in either Shaggy or Maynard's lifestyles, but being "laid-back" didn't start with hippies. Of course, it being a 1960's cartoon with [[Totally Radical|already ten-year old pop cultural references]] doesn't help matters...
* Otto the bus driver from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (though signs that he does drugs—particularly marijuana—didn't crop up until season seven. Prior to that, he was just some perpetual teenager who drove a school bus [despite not having a license], got along great with kids, and loved rock music from the 1960s to the 1980s).
* [[Daria|Trent & Jesse. Especially Jesse]].

== [[Real Life]] ==
* The late [[Mitch Hedberg]].
** Who died from speedballing. Probably should have stuck to getting stoned.
* [[Bill Bailey]], very much so.
* Cheech and Chong.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEP9aU-ynm0 Wendy Rieger]
* Real life stoners in general really. [[Watch It Stoned|Especially if you are one of them]].

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