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* In the British Comic [[Viz]], Paul Whicker (The Tall Vicar), responds to his verger's suggestion that the forthcoming youth group disco would give them the chance to 'shift some Es and whiz' with a grin and "Or aspirins and Vim if the ugly truth be known" (Vim being a brand of scouring powder with a (very) superficial resemblance to powdered amphetamine.

* A very silly version of this in ''[[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'', when Fat Freddy tried to buy illicit sugar in the middle of a shortage.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Performed in the movie ''[[Go]]'', in which one of the characters sells harmless household products as drugs to inexperienced teens.

* At the beginning of ''[[A Few Good Men]]'', Tom Cruise's character is defending a client who bought and smoked "a dime bag of oregano."

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* In ''[[The Pretender]]'', a series where the [[No Social Skills]] protagonist does a [[Once an Episode]] thing of discovering something that people with normal childhoods take for granted, the episode "Silence" has him (A) discovering chocolate milk powder and (B) trying to bring down a drug pipeline transporting brown heroin. Near the end of the episode, he brings (A) and (B) together.

* On ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Earl and Randy wanted to take advantage of "special brownie night" at the Crab Shack. They switched the price tags on the brownies, so that those who wanted to buy the pot brownies ended up buying regular ones, and then Earl and Randy could sell the actual pot brownies later. Darnell intended to take the regular brownies to share with his mother, and is stopped by angry would-be stoners, who then proceeded to stone him. [[Narm|It was Biblical.]]

* In the ''[[Raising the Bar]]'' episode "Is There a Doctor in the House?", Kellerman's client, a middle-aged woman, was arrested because the police found a large quantity of white powder in her car. . . while she was on the way to the laundromat. After lab tests confirmed that the powder was laundry detergent, the police [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop|showed their customary regard for the law]] by charging the defendant with selling a [[Beat Bag]].

* Shows up in [[The Wire]] when Bubbles steals a gang's ground stash, only to find the gang was selling vialed baking soda. He feels extremely guilty, having seen the gang beat up some innocent addicts for his theft as he was escaping. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]] at [[Wham! Episode|the end of season four]] when Bubbles prepares a {{spoiler|hot shot of cyanide for a fiend who constantly attacks him for money and drugs, expecting the fiend to take it, shoot up and drop dead. The effort fails when the fiend misses Bubbles during the day and Sherrod steals Bubble's stash that night, shooting up with the vial filled with cyanide}}.