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* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'s Zonker Harris is probably the second-druggiest character in syndicated comics - his uncle Duke is the first - and he's something of a {{cloudcuckoolander}}, but he's brainy as well.

* Tommy Chong in the ''CheechAndChong'' series and in real life.

* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'': The stoner ([[HilariousInHindsight played by]] [[AsHimself Charlie Sheen]]) that Jean meets at the police station. He nails her problem and is halfway towards nailing ''her'' when her mother shows up.

* The ancient Chinese [[strike:hippies]] free-spirited nomads from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.

* ''AnimalCrossing'' has Pascal and K.K. Slider. Pascal in particular.

* A repeated theme on ''{{Dragnet}}''. They often wound up trading philosophical barbs with Sgt.Friday and most of the time wound up in jail by the episode's end.

* Fred Kwan from ''GalaxyQuest'', Perpetually high, mellow, and accepting, with quite a few bits of wisdom and knowledge thrown in to boot."''

* JamesFranco has been fairly open about his marijuana use, and has a strong interest in [[IncrediblyLamePun higher education]], including working towards a [=PhD=] in English Literature at [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Yale]].

** It's both and neither. Spud's good at a lot of things instead of just one, so he's not really a GeniusDitz. His uh...eccentricities are only ''sometimes'' faked, so he's not ObfuscatingStupidity. The whole of his character is best encompassed by [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzagging]] between those two, EruditeStoner, and just plain CloudCuckoolander.

* Haley's boyfriend Jeff on ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''.

* Dave Matthews, of the DaveMatthewsBand.

-->''"Guy Fleegman: I'm just a glorified extra, Fred. I'm a dead man anyway. If I'm gonna die, I'd rather go out a hero than a coward."''
-->''"Fred Kwan: Guy, Guy... maybe you're the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?"''
-->''"Guy Fleegman: Plucky?"''

* Leo on ''That70sShow'' (almost all the main characters smoke marijuana, but it was never explicitly shown or referred to by name). Except for the ''smoke''.

* Subverted in the movie ''LittleMissSunshine'': AlanArkin's character is shown snorting heroin at the start of the movie, in the opening credits. Later in the movie he spouts advice/nonsense at [[EmoTeen Dwayne]] about getting it on.

* Many depictions like this owe at least something to DennisHopper's photojournalist character in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Direct parodies of this character occur often in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.

* Filmore, the [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippy]]-painted VW Microbus and peddler of organic fuels in Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Although a family-friendly movie probably wouldn't outright say it, it ''is'' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar hinted at]] when Filmore [[ContemplatingYourHands Contemplates A Blinking Traffic Light:]]

* The Truth (voiced by PeterFonda) from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' hangs out here, too. Also usually supplies his own stuff, for consumption and distribution.

* ''AnimalCrossing'' has Pascal and K.K. Slider. Pascal in particular screams (or rather casually mumbles) high.

Their speech patterns will probably be slow and somewhat rambling, and they will come out with non sequiturs as often as they produce a gem of wisdom. But the wisdom will ''always'' be [[InfallibleBabble exactly what another character needed to be told, at the precise moment they need most to hear it.]]

* Dylan the rabbit in ''TheMagicRoundabout''.

* BillHicks, despite generally being angry with society, he did fit in numerous deep, philosophical ideas into his standup

* ''TheDarkTower'' Eddie's brother, the great sage and eminent junkie Henry Dean, fits this trope fairly well.