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* While Music/TheNorthernBoys don't directly preach against drug use, their lyrics often juxtapose drug abuse with how miserable their lives are, portraying it as both an escape from and a contributor to their problems.
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* Zig-zagged in ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle''. Yes, drugs are presented as a general bad thing and the villain of the movie is an AxCrazy drug dealer. However, the movie also parodies and criticizises a too harsh take on drugs: [[spoiler:Agent Whiskey]] and the president have a AllCrimesAreEqual approach on drugs, being willing to letting ''anyone'' who ever took drugs for whatever reason. The president even hopes to be remembered for finally winning TheWarOnDrugs. Both of them are getting arrested in the end.

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* Zig-zagged in ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle''. Yes, drugs are presented as a general bad thing and the villain of the movie is an AxCrazy drug dealer. However, the movie also parodies and criticizises a too harsh take on drugs: [[spoiler:Agent Whiskey]] and the president have a AllCrimesAreEqual approach on drugs, being willing to letting ''anyone'' who ever took drugs for whatever reason. The president even hopes to be remembered for finally winning TheWarOnDrugs.UsefulNotes/TheWarOnDrugs. Both of them are getting arrested in the end.
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* Zig-zagged in ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle''. Yes, drugs are presented as a general bad thing and the villain of the movie is an AxCrazy drug dealer. However, the movie also parodies and criticizises a too harsh take on drugs: [[spoiler:Agent Whiskey]] and the president have a AllCrimesAreEqual approach on drugs, being willing to letting ''anyone'' who ever took drugs for whatever reason. The president even hopes to be remembered for finally winning TheWarOnDrugs. Both of them are getting arrested in the end.
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* ''Film/Scarface1983'': Everything starts going downhill for Tony when he starts [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply getting high on his own supply]].
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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBearsBigChapterBooks'': One of the big aesops of ''The Berenstain Bears and the Drug Free Zone''. Dr. Gert Grizzly explains in depth to the Bear Detectives about how the illegal drugs being dealt in Beartown are ''poison'', which damage the heart and kidneys, and how they can alter your mind so you'll make bad decisions (as evidenced by Skuzz recklessly riding his bike in such a way that leads to his crashing into a police car).

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* ''Film/DieHard'' made sure that annoying loser Harry Ellis used cocaine. This was probably done in equal parts to show how pathetically depressed he was, though. It gets taken a step further when [[spoiler:he snorts cocaine right before trying to negotiate with the bad guys, which not only gets him killed, but because he gives them John's name, the local news crew uses the info to track down John's kids and figure out that one of the hostages is John's wife, nearly getting ''them'' killed.]]



* ''Film/DieHard'' made sure that annoying loser Harry Ellis used cocaine. This was probably done in equal parts to show how pathetically depressed he was, though.
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* PlayedForDrama in the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'', starting with ''Sunny Side Up''. Sunny's older brother Dale starts smoking pot and drinking behind his parents' back, which makes him ill-tempered and nasty to them, and he pressures Sunny to [[KeepingSecretsSucks keep the secret when she finds out]]. [[spoiler:He, in a drunken fight with his father, hits Sunny during the Fourth of July fireworks on accident hard enough to bruise her -- because she stepped in between them fighting while he was swinging out in his drunken outburst.]] He gets sent off to MilitarySchool to clean up his act, and Sunny [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for "getting him in trouble" and is ashamed and embarrassed to the point that in Florida she doesn't initially mention him to her new friend Buzz, as [[BrokenPedastal he's fallen from the kind cool big brother he was]]. Dale also doesn't get "cured" instantly and has to spend a good part of the next book, ''Swing It, Sunny'', at MilitarySchool after flunking twelfth grade (and his absence is felt), and he's resentful that he's there at all and takes his upset out on his family including her. It takes him some time to come to terms with things and face his issues, and he later enrolls in the Navy and is a much better person for it.

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* PlayedForDrama in the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'', starting with ''Sunny Side Up''. Sunny's older brother Dale starts smoking pot and drinking behind his parents' back, which makes him ill-tempered and nasty to them, and he pressures Sunny to [[KeepingSecretsSucks keep the secret when she finds out]]. [[spoiler:He, in a drunken fight with his father, hits Sunny during the Fourth of July fireworks on accident hard enough to bruise her -- because she stepped in between them fighting while he was swinging out in his drunken outburst.]] He gets sent off to MilitarySchool to clean up his act, and Sunny [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for "getting him in trouble" and is ashamed and embarrassed to the point that in Florida she doesn't initially mention him to her new friend Buzz, as [[BrokenPedastal [[BrokenPedestal he's fallen from the kind cool big brother he was]]. Dale also doesn't get "cured" instantly and has to spend a good part of the next book, ''Swing It, Sunny'', at MilitarySchool after flunking twelfth grade (and his absence is felt), and he's resentful that he's there at all and takes his upset out on his family including her. It takes him some time to come to terms with things and face his issues, and he later enrolls in the Navy and is a much better person for it.
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* PlayedForDrama in the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'', starting with ''Sunny Side Up''. Sunny's older brother Dale starts smoking pot and drinking behind his parents' back, which makes him ill-tempered and nasty to them, and he pressures Sunny to [[KeepingSecretsSucks keep the secret when she finds out]]. [[spoiler:When he, in a drunken fight with his father, hits Sunny during the Fourth of July fireworks on accident hard enough to bruise her -- because she stepped in between them fighting while he was swinging out in his drunken outburst-- he gets sent off to boarding school to clean up his act, followed by enrollment in the military.]] Sunny [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for "getting him in trouble" and is ashamed and embarrassed to the point that in Florida she doesn't initially mention him.

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* PlayedForDrama in the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'', starting with ''Sunny Side Up''. Sunny's older brother Dale starts smoking pot and drinking behind his parents' back, which makes him ill-tempered and nasty to them, and he pressures Sunny to [[KeepingSecretsSucks keep the secret when she finds out]]. [[spoiler:When he, [[spoiler:He, in a drunken fight with his father, hits Sunny during the Fourth of July fireworks on accident hard enough to bruise her -- because she stepped in between them fighting while he was swinging out in his drunken outburst-- he outburst.]] He gets sent off to boarding school MilitarySchool to clean up his act, followed by enrollment in the military.]] and Sunny [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for "getting him in trouble" and is ashamed and embarrassed to the point that in Florida she doesn't initially mention him.him to her new friend Buzz, as [[BrokenPedastal he's fallen from the kind cool big brother he was]]. Dale also doesn't get "cured" instantly and has to spend a good part of the next book, ''Swing It, Sunny'', at MilitarySchool after flunking twelfth grade (and his absence is felt), and he's resentful that he's there at all and takes his upset out on his family including her. It takes him some time to come to terms with things and face his issues, and he later enrolls in the Navy and is a much better person for it.
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* PlayedForDrama in the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'', starting with ''Sunny Side Up''. Sunny's older brother Dale starts smoking pot and drinking behind his parents' back, which makes him ill-tempered and nasty to them, and he pressures Sunny to [[KeepingSecretsSucks keep the secret when she finds out]]. [[spoiler:When he, in a drunken fight with his father, hits Sunny during the Fourth of July fireworks on accident hard enough to bruise her -- because she stepped in between them fighting while he was swinging out in his drunken outburst-- he gets sent off to boarding school to clean up his act, followed by enrollment in the military.]] Sunny [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for it and is ashamed and embarassed to the point that in Florida she doesn't initially mention him.

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* PlayedForDrama in the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'', starting with ''Sunny Side Up''. Sunny's older brother Dale starts smoking pot and drinking behind his parents' back, which makes him ill-tempered and nasty to them, and he pressures Sunny to [[KeepingSecretsSucks keep the secret when she finds out]]. [[spoiler:When he, in a drunken fight with his father, hits Sunny during the Fourth of July fireworks on accident hard enough to bruise her -- because she stepped in between them fighting while he was swinging out in his drunken outburst-- he gets sent off to boarding school to clean up his act, followed by enrollment in the military.]] Sunny [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for it "getting him in trouble" and is ashamed and embarassed embarrassed to the point that in Florida she doesn't initially mention him.
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* PlayedForDrama in the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'', starting with ''Sunny Side Up''. Sunny's older brother Dale starts smoking pot and drinking behind his parents' back, which makes him ill-tempered and nasty to them, and he pressures Sunny to [[KeepingSecretsSucks keep the secret when she finds out]]. [[spoiler:When he, in a drunken fight with his father, hits Sunny during the Fourth of July fireworks on accident hard enough to bruise her -- because she stepped in between them fighting while he was swinging out in his drunken outburst-- he gets sent off to boarding school to clean up his act, followed by enrollment in the military.]] Sunny [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for it and is ashamed and embarassed to the point that in Florida she doesn't initially mention him.

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