The Stoner

"Hold up! Let me spark this, take a breather. Breathe that reefer in my lungs; I got grapes, what you watchin', son?"

"Life's a bitch and then you die
That's why we get high."

— Nas, "Life's a Bitch"

The stoner is a comical, spaced-out laid-back character who hangs out, smokes weed, gets beat up, makes bad jokes, and suffers other sorts of Butt-Monkey type misadventures, only with more drugs. Almost always denoted by their Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes in animation, if his eyes aren't noticeably bloodshot to begin with. The most likely character to get a Mushroom Samba bit. He is a cross between Butt-Monkey and the wacky guy. Usually somewhere between a technical and an Actual Pacifist, and almost always entirely non-threatening, in physical appearance.

May very occasionally be prone to getting dangerous, but only rarely and under exceptional circumstances. While cannabis is the drug of choice, psychedelic drugs and Fantastic Drugs are also used. The character may lack ambition and drive beyond scoring his next baggie of Acapulco Gold, or, if they're already high, soothing their "munchies" with tasty snacks.

The stoner is similar to the 19th Century "funny drunk." However, that became a Discredited Trope as groups like Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) gained influence, and warned of the dangers of heavy drinking. The modern stereotype is that drunks are likely to beat you up, while stoners aren't going to hurt anyone, so stoners make better comedy. When Played for Drama, they are likely to be burnt-out losers living dead-end lives with no ambition or meaningful aspirations beyond getting high.

Not to be confused with The Atoner. One key away means a whole different thing...^note Man, the way I killed those orphans was totally uncool, man!

May evolve into an Erudite Stoner if they philosophize about Nietzsche and Buddhism. If the character fits the type but is never shown actually toking on weed, to avoid the disapproval of Moral Guardians, that's a G-Rated Stoner. Expect them to make reference to a certain number, too. See also The Slacker and Surfer Dude for related laid-back character types. Compare Granola Girl, New-Age Retro Hippie, and Mellow Fellow.

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Examples:

Advertising

• American fast food chain Jack in the Box ran a pair of commercials for their late night menu, featuring 2 tacos for 99¢, showing a stoner in a van getting confused by the menu. In both, he imagines the Jack bobblehead on his dashboard talking to him. And in both, he has the munchies.
  Jack: You weren't really gonna eat 99 tacos, were you?
  Stoner: No... yeah.

Anime & Manga

• Black Lagoon: Leigharch has this huge pile of used cocaine (pot in the anime) stubs. This causes him to hallucinate weird things, say weirder things, and get kicked by Revy for being high on the job. Despite this, he's an awesome getaway driver. Deconstructed when it's eventually revealed that he overdosed and got put in an insane asylum.
• Sabba in Dreamland, to the point he sells one arm to buy a super strong weed (sure he didn't know what that "life essence" he was asked to pay was, but he didn't really stop to think twice either). This trope is implied to be the reason he could become a Traveller without overcoming any phobia (and thus has no power of his own).
• A popular fanon for The Netherlands and Canada in Hetalia: Axis Powers, coming from their relatively liberal drug policies from Real Life. In fairness, Finland did say that the Netherlands was into some "shady drugs".
  • As of the 2010 Christmas event, partially confirmed in Canada's case (We know he smokes pot, but not how often).

Comic Books

• Pike from ElfQuest. A positive example: his love for the mellow world of a dreamberry haze makes him excellent at telling colorful stories, and he became the tribe's historian ("Keeper of the Howl") because of it.
• The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, who between the three of them have at one time or another ate, drank, snorted, smoked or injected just about everything conceivable that wouldn't be instantly poisonous.
• Flax Seed from the Rarity issue of My Little Pony Micro Series is obviously never seen actually smoking pot (it's My Little Pony after all), but his personality fits this stereotype to a tee. Word of God on the matter is essentially "I can't say he's stoned, but he pretty much is."

Fan Works

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • Mr. Popo. It's how Kami keeps him even slightly under control. It's taken to exaggerated levels in the Androids/Cell saga, where Mr. Popo spends part of it tripping on a gallon of LSD. A literal gallon. Out of a milk jug. Kami doesn't even know where he got it, as he never leaves the lookout.
  • Kami as well, since "that shit's great for his glaucoma".
  • Master Roshi as well. And he does not hold back when he's toasted.
  • Count Dende in as well.
  Popo: Worry not; all you really need is a little green.
  Dende: I explicitly asked you not to call me that!
  Popo: (holds up a blunt) I'm not!
  Dende: (narrows eyes and smirks) ...Yo.
• Guys Being Dudes: A stereotypical one of these is among the patronage at the Sleepless Bakery. Candela and Arlo also share a joint during his Flashback of their past relationship.
• Subverted in Highly Questionable Decisions. While she didn't consume any drugs, Satsuki acts like one when she "turns off her brain" (at Ryuuko's advice). Naturally, those around her assumed she was on drugs.
• The Warbler member Nick is a foul-mouthed, Hot-Blooded pot-smoker in Hunting the Unicorn. The Warblers constantly call him a stoner, but it's more of an in-joke since he only smokes a couple of times a week. He's prone to strange logic even without getting stoned.
• Living The Dream
  • There's not a moment where you will find Greg without a blunt. He learned Transmutation for the sole purpose of bringing weed to Equestria. Weed is not the only substance he's willing to get high on though, seeing as he broke into a hospital to steal morphine.
  • To a lesser extant is Greg's dog Weedy, who was chain smoking blunts at only a month old.
• In Maim de Maim, Satsuki is literally this throughout most of the fiction until her Kamui partner told her that the very last batch she acquired and ingested was salvia, which is not terribly fun for the unprepared. Now upholding her promise to Junketsu, she has now decided to quit weed for a while; which will only, in turn, improve her already astonishing performance with Junketsu.
• Absolutely everyone in Marijuana Simpson. Marge at one point gets so high she forgets Homer is her husband, not her father.
• The fan game Pokémon Insurgence has Xavier, the Gym Leader of Vipik City. While it's not explicitly stated, one of the trainers in his gym complains about the weird mist coming from his room, his house in Helios City is visibly filled with mist and smoke, and he Mega Evolves his Beedrill with a Mega Bong.
• In The Setup Wizard when Hufflepuff House is allowed to select the name for the wireless network they go with Huff, Huff, Pass. Fortunately, the rest of the Hogwarts' staff are too out of touch to get it.
• The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H.: Otto, as in canon. This quote from "First Day of Cruel" puts it best:

Simon: Why did you just ignore me like that? Are you high?

Otto: Constantly.

Film — Animation

• Big Hero 6 has Fred, the quintessential college stoner dude. He’s got long hair, a knit cap, and necklace inspired by big stompy lizard monsters, an adorkable love of comic books and some questionable hygiene practices. It's all stoner stereotypes and while Disney hasn't specified what it is he's quitting, the matter is settled in his line just before they meet Yokai...
  Fred: My name is Fred, and it's been thirty days since my last- HOLY MOTHER OF MEGAZON!!!
  (Yokai starts to loom above them with millions of microbots))
  Fred: Is... Is anyone else seeing this?
• Reggie from Free Birds became this after having an overdose of T.V. and Pizza.
• Bobby in A Goofy Movie is a (very) thinly veiled stoner, who even goes on to contemplate his gloves in the DTV sequel.
• Ernie and Bernie from Shark Tale are lampshaded to be this. Not only that they look like they smoked too much but they're very stupid as well.
• In Turning Red, this is unconfirmed, but Ming suspects this is why Devon is so lethargic and, in her opinion, looks much older than he is.

Film — Live-Action

• In American Ultra, Mike Howell is just your typical small-town, loser, stoner. Dead-end job, doodling his daydreams and ideas in a journal, local sheriff harassing him about all the petty arrests for minor trouble he's been picked up on and the "too good for him" girlfriend that babysits him. The only thing differentiating Mike from most of the other people on this page is that besides enjoying getting high, he used to be in a secret CIA program that trained him to be an unstoppable super-badass. He just doesn't remember any of that.
• As You Are: Jack and Mark spend a lot of time smoking weed and cutting school. Sarah sometimes joins them.
• Friend from the indie movie The Auteur. So named because he is one to all living things. Purveyor of multiple kinds of weed that mess with your head. Lives in a nudist commune. Records bird sounds.
• The Big Lebowski: The Dude fits this trope quite well (and spectacularly), though the movie makes it clear that he is actually not as crazy and silly as basically everyone else. The Coen Brothers mention in one of the behind-the-scenes documentaries that his "liberal drug use" allowed them to insert several fantasy sequences and a Busby Berkeley Number without breaking the tone of the movie. Jeff Bridges also asked the Coens to tell him if The Dude had burned one on the way over so he could rub his eyes to achieve the appropriate level of redness.
• Harold from The Boys in the Band. However, he's a witty Deadpan Snarker and least Butt-Monkey-ish character in the cast.
• The Cabin in the Woods has an initially straight example in Marty - with the variation that his drug use actually helped immunize him against some of the chemicals released in the cabin, and his paranoia was thoroughly accurate. He actually proves to be fairly smart.
• Caddyshack:
  • Assistant groundskeeper Carl Spackler is working on a hybrid of marijuana and turf grass, that can be used for both putting and smoking. He smokes some with Ty Webb.
  • Danny Noonan also admits to Ty that he gets high:
    Ty: You take drugs, Danny?
    Danny: Every day.
    Ty: Good. Then what's your problem?
    Danny: I don't know.
  • Also Lacey Underall likes to go to bullfights on acid. She's sitting at a table at the yacht club table with Spaudling Smails and the other assembled young people who are smoking marijuana and presumably, she's smoking with them. When she goes to pick up Danny and take him to bed, she gets annoyed when she walks up to him with Terry the Hippie and finds out that he doesn't have that much weed when they walk up to Danny:
    Lacey: Hey Carey Grant... you wanna get high?
    Terry: Wait a minute! I only got a little!
    Lacey: Then split, okay, Terry?
    Terry: Sure.
• Cheech & Chong are likely the originators of this trope, seldom appearing in a film without their trademark joints, smoking it up throughout.
• Eve Lydon from Crank is Chev's pothead girlfriend. In the first movie, her constant pot smoking makes her oblivious to everything going on around her.
• Snuffy and Right Hand from Crooklyn who are often seen huffing glue
• Subverted in Dark Shadows:
  Carolyn Stoddard: Are you stoned or something?
  Barnabas Collins: They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.
• Jesse and Chester from Dude, Where's My Car?. Although they talk about getting high all the time and mention having marijuana-themed aliases in one scene, neither of them are actually seen smoking in the film. In fact, the only character who does toke onscreen is a dog.
• Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It’s easier to list the times where he’s not stoned.
• Freeburg in Freddy vs. Jason, who is an Expy of Jay, constantly getting blazed even when there are serial killers roaming around. In fact, his drug use allows Freddy to possess him without any problems.
• Friday gives us Smokey, who is often seen smoking and constantly acting the fool throughout most of the film.
• Fred of Galaxy Quest isn't seen actually toking up on-screen, but his extremely calm, slightly drowsy demeanor while everyone else is freaking out and his penchant for snacking are a huge tipoff to anyone paying the slightest attention. In the original cut, this was supposed to be explicit but was cut to keep the film's PG rating, but it's still pretty obvious.
• The main trio from Game Over, Man!, but especially Darren, who is seen smoking salvia more than once.
• The Gingerweed Man: The titular Gingerweed Man can be seen lighting up a bong near the start of the movie (which gets him chewed out by Barbara for smoking their profits. He's implied to do it again during the intermission. One of his costumers is also taking a bit from a bong when he makes a delivery.
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Haroun's father is tired of him lying around all day smoking hashish, so he pays Sinbad gold and a slavegirl to take the boy away.
• Bjarne, one of the main characters of The Green Butchers, is smoking a lot of weed, very obviously as a way of self-medicating his anger issues. He claims to smoke about 20 joints a day, and that because of this he probably wouldn't be able to smell if his hair was on fire.
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. This is the first notable instance of mainstream stoners, who are explicitly not slackers, but rather, productive members of society. (Harold is an investment banker (before the current crisis) and Kumar has untapped potential to be a doctor.)
• High School (2010): Travis Breaux and his stoner friends, of course. He's introduced with them pulling pranks on him while he's sleeping, and waking up after spending a lot of time at the bottom of a pool full of water. It's also him convincing Henry to smoke a joint that ends up causing the events of the movie.
• There is a song in the first High School Musical film that introduces the school's various cliques - nerds, jocks, etc - including one that appears to be a Disneyfied version of a group of stoners, complete with proclamations of "duuuude..."
• Lycan: Kenny spends most of the movie smoking a joint, but it doesn't seem to affect him.
• In Mabul, Yoni's irresponsible father Gidi secretly grows marijuana at his workplace and spends a lot of time stoned.
• Drazic, in The Mansion, arrives with a suitcase full of various botanical drugs and he's seldom seen in the film not lighting up. His role takes plot significance when first Charlotte undergoes a Mushroom Samba courtesy of his "mushroom cupcakes" and later when the villain is taken out by his "Tibetan frog".
• While almost everyone else in Neighbors is also this Mac fits the image best, bringing over weed to the frat house a peace offering, getting stoned while at work and realising Teddy's combination lock number could only be 420.
• In Nemesis Game, Dennis, the customer in Vern's comic book shop, appears to constantly stoned and completely awed and overwhelmed by Vern's riddles. However, this turns out to be Obfuscating Stupidity.
• Matthew, Harvey, and Dr. Bamford in Saving Grace to varying degrees. Matthew likes to think of himself as easygoing (although he can be high strung), Harvey tries to be an Erudite Stoner but ends up more of a Conspiracy Theorist. Dr. Bamford is a slacker prone to crashing on couches but seems to be a surprisingly competent doctor. It's implied there isn't much for anyone under 50 in the town to do except get stoned and hang out at the pub.)
• Shorty in Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2.
• Played with in Scary Movie 3:
  Sayaman: I'm sorry, dude.
  Tom: Don't call me "dude". I'm not a stoner anymore. Not since...
• Troy in Shrooms, who is on the mushrooming trip for the sole purpose of getting high. He smokes a bong on the way from the airport to the forest. He also looks quite a lot like Jay from The View Askewniverse.
• Palmer from The Thing (1982). And to a lesser extent his roommate Childs (they were growing marijuana in the storage room)
• Floyd from True Romance. It was Brad Pitt's idea to make the character a stoner. He based this character insight on the fact that the guy is always sitting around at home in the living room. Although we tropers generally aren't in the business of citations, you can hear Brad Pitt explain it in this time-stamped youtube link.
• Jay of The View Askewniverse is a particularly energetic variation, whereas his partner Silent Bob better fits the relaxed stoner stereotype. Both also explicitly deal pot.
• A Wedding (1978): One of the bridesmaids, Muffin's cousin Ruby, spends a lot of her screen time trying to find out if anyone else at the wedding has any marijuana to share with her.
• In Wishcraft, Brett's best friend Howie is convinced he has done enough to pass and is happy to spend the rest of his final year getting high. (And hitting on the school's grief counselor.)
• The Wraith: Skank drinks car chemicals to get high.

Literature

• In John Moore blends this with Junkie Prophet in his Fractured Fairy Tale, Bad Prince Charlie. The oracle that Charlie goes to see for advice with his troubles turns out to be a very young, very naked, and very stoned girl, who is prone to saying "wow" a lot, and constantly has the munchies. Very loosely inspired by some historians' notions of the Oracle at Delphi in Ancient Greece.
  Polocks: You see, she's called the High Priestess because...
  Charlie: I get it! I get it, ok? Don't run it into the ground. Dammit, Pollocks, you brought me all the way up here to meet a stoner?
• Dead End Job Mysteries: During the first two books, one of Helen's neighbors at the apartment complex is Phil, a man she's never seen except for a perpetual cloud of weed smoke coming out of his apartment (and a brief glimpse of his "Clapton is God" t-shirt when he pulled her out of her burning apartment in book 1), to the point where she's nicknamed him "Phil the invisible pothead". In book 2, she also finds drug paraphernalia in his apartment when she and an exterminator go in to make sure everything's been removed before the apartments are gassed for termites. Then Book 3 subverts it in a big way when Helen finally meets him in person and finds out that the stoner persona is all an act - he's really a private investigator and consultant with the government, and is working undercover in order to solve a major money laundering case (which she winds up helping him with).
• Inherent Vice has Doc lighting up on a regular basis, as do his friends and neighbours. Even his parents.
• The Malazan Book of the Fallen has Emancipor Reese. He once brought down a theocracy with the stimulant seeds on his handkerchief.
• A female version exists and is played around with in Metal Star Prophecies: The Green Owl. Matsuda Tsuroba likes getting high, but sometimes it's because she's with her boyfriend, and sometimes she does it as a means to alleviate her stress and worries about graduation from high school. She's also more approachable when stoned; sober Matsuda's a little more apprehensive and realistic.
• Naughty: Nine Tales of Christmas Crime: Arlo Hettle, from "I Killed Santa Claus," "Naughty," and "Naiveté," is an unmotivated and unimaginative user of marijuana and various borrowed over-the-counter drugs who can barely hold down a job as a mall elf with "a memory like a sponge...by which I mean it's soggy and full of holes."
  Hannah: Demerol? Geez, Arlo, can't you just say no?
  Arlo: Man, I can't even say "maybe."
• Discworld's parody of the Hashishin in Sourcery, renowned for being deadly and, at the same time, inclined to giggle, groove to interesting patterns of light on their daggers, and fall over.
• The Stranger Times: Manny is a laid-back Dreadlock Rasta who smokes weed to treat his glaucoma (allegedly). He occasionally shares a blunt with his coworker Ox.
• Chris Lang in Tomorrow: When the War Began. He's shown to be a weird genius with more of a drinking problem than anything else, in the film he wears a dressing gown, is prone to weird, like, weird, stoner-talk and smokes on screen.

Live-Action TV

• Atypical:
  • Zahid smokes a lot of weed. At one point it almost costs him his job after his boss catches him several times smoking on Techtropolis property, until Sam lies that he smokes it for his autism. During the fourth season, Zahid and Sam come to an agreement in the apartment that they share that Zahid won't smoke weed around Sam's tortoise Edison. Later, Doug and Elsa arrives at the apartment when Sam and Zahid aren't home and Elsa finds a huge jar of weed, which she confiscates. Later, Doug returns the jar back to Zahid, who gives him a joint that he and Elsa share back at home.
  • Elsa, to a lesser extent. In the first season while having her affair with Nick, she reluctantly takes hits off of his bong and later lets it slip to the mom of someone on Casey's track team about Casey's tentative move to the Claymore private school; this results in all of Casey's team being mad at her as she is their star runner, and her leaving would jeopardize the entire team.
• BOB ❤️ ABISHOLA: Douglas and Christina are both, in their mother's words, "useless potheads." Being spoiled rich kids with terrible self-esteem issues is an understandable reason however.
• Jesse from Breaking Bad started out like this. His stoner nature made him initially almost completely useless, except for his ability to befriend other drug users who help to deal his product. However, all the bad stuff he witnessed and participated in caused him to become a much more serious person. In later seasons when he goes Off the Wagon he uses harder drugs like heroin and there is nothing funny about it anymore.
• Class of '07: Megan and Tegan are initially set on just getting high with nothing else as their goals. They cheerfully accept being labeled drug addicts. Both spend most of their time doing this together, joking around and frequently getting into trouble in pursuit of it.
• The Consultant (2023): Amy, one of the supporting characters, turns out to be a frequent drug user. She smokes pot once with Craig in her car, and Amy admits she'd been on ketamine after Sang's murder for a time. Amy's a slightly hippieish woman who ditches her shoes in the office to put her feet up and has an overall casual air, with her having Quirky Curls, though it's very downplayed in general.
• Jon Stewart occasionally plays this on The Daily Show, usually with a reference to Half Baked (where he played the Enhancement Smoker). After a comment by Bill O'Reilly, his fans have taken to calling themselves the Stoned Slackers.
• The presmise of Disjointed depicts people who work at a marijuana dispensery...so, yeah.
• On How I Met Your Mother, Ted, Marshall, and Lily were this when they were in college. They grew out of it, but occasionally slip back into it for old times sake (although by the year 2020, they complain that they can't handle more than one joint anymore). However, since Future!Ted is telling the story to his kids, he replaces all mentions of smoking pot with "eating a sandwich", with a corresponding visual euphemism.
• A good chunk of the characters on Mom smoke weed. While the show doesn't take much a moral stance for or against it, it does highlight the stupid and/or dangerous things people can do while high and how such behavior can anger/annoy those who don't partake.
  • Luke smokes, although it's implied that it's as much recreational as it is to try and cope with his overbearing father. It's also shown that being perpetually high doesn't do him any favors. With or without the pot, however, he is a good-natured, but extremely dim, goof.
  • Baxter sees being high as a good thing, even when it comes to issues of personal safety.
  Baxter: "Never fall sober! You tense up!
  Christy: "Thanks for the tip.
  Baxter: "It's a scientific fact: you can't get hurt when you're high. I don't make the rules!"
  • Marijuana is probably the least of Chef Rudy's vices, as the show reveals that he takes and deals in a wide variety of substances and sexual fetishes. The substance abuse element of Rudy's character is Truth in Television for many people trying to cope in the incredibly stressful food industry.
  • Adam smokes weed. When Tammy's parole officer pays a surprise visit, Christy barely has enough time to send Bonnie a quick text warning her. Bonnie quickly runs into the bedroom, where Adam is taking hits from a bong, and she throws it out the window and runs back out without explanation. Adam is rightfully pissed.
• The Electric Mayhem from The Muppets. In the 2015 series, Kermit notes that they're "Always happy. Legally, now."
• On My Name Is Earl, Earl and Randy once robbed a stoner of all his possessions, so he's on The List. They track him down only to discover that he gave up drugs and is now living off the grid on a hippie commune. To make up for what they did, Earl and Randy agree to live on the commune for a week and try to green up their lifestyles and educate people about global warming. Earl has a breakdown, while Randy trips out on a salve given to him, and the ex-stoner guy gave Earl some much-needed advice about not taking on more than he can handle and not having to be perfect.
• The Outer Limits (1995): In "Abaddon", Curtis Sandoval, the medical officer of the interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod, is a major stoner who uses drugs to escape reality as he hates his life and his job. He likes to call himself "Dr. Feelgood".
• On Parks and Recreation, the Pawnee Animal Control department is run by 2 stoners who eventually get fired. There's also the former head of the Parks Department who grows pot in some public park flowerbeds.
• On Schitt's Creek multiple characters smoke weed, with Mutt being the most stereotypical stoner character. Stevie and David smoke together more than once, including the time that led to their first hookup. Even the older generation gets high at the Schitts' luau.
• Samantha on Sex and the City is often shown smoking a joint. The other girls happily smoke pot too.
• Stranger Things:
  • Argyle spends most of season 4 stoned, and his reaction to upsetting things like getting shot at or having a guy die in his van is to smoke more weed. He also gives lots of strangely worded advice of varying qualities while thus.
  • To a lesser extent, Jonathan, but he stops after realizing that Eleven is in trouble.
  • Then there's "Argyle 2.0," whom Jonathan is able to bribe into leaving Surfer Boy Pizza with Argyle's Purple Palm Tree Delight.
• Taken: In "Acid Tests", the archaeology student Daryl seems to be perpetually high, taking it in his stride when he falls into a burial chamber. He is later seen smoking a joint while trying on a Tsimtshian mask.
• 'Stoner' (no other name given) in The X-Files episodes "War of the Coprophages" and "Quagmire". Although he does not get beaten up, both times he and his girlfriend ('Chick' or 'Redheaded Chick') watch as a third member of the group dies as a result of whatever drug Stoner is enjoying.

Music

• Deconstructed also in Afroman's "Because I got high". A very happy sounding song about a man whose drug use ruins his entire life. He loses his job, his kids, wife and ends up homeless... because he got high.
  • The deconstruction is subverted in the "positive remix" Afroman teamed up with Weed Maps years later to do, a song about the medicinal and societal benefits of cannabis.
• The Black Crowes are famed for appearing on the cover of High Times Magazine. Chris Robinson is an avowed stoner.
• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony: In fact, Krayzie Bone smoked so much that one of his lungs collapsed!!
• Cypress Hill's music may as well be considered the stoners' anthem. Entertainment Weekly once called them simply "Pot Rappers".
• Dr. Dre's music had weed as a common theme. However, some have pointed out that there's no actual proof that he really smokes weed, leading to the theory that it's just an act to boost sales.
• (həd) p.e. doesn't often address it in their music, but the band are well-known to be marijuana smokers.
• Ice Cube's track "Smoke Some Weed" off his album Laugh now, Cry Later name-checks several celebrities as having partaken in the herb, including some surprising ones who hit that in their early days.
  Ice Cube: "George Bush, George Clinton, Bill Clinton
  Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Bob Marley
  Rick James, knew how to throw a party
  Smoke some weed!
  Snoop Dogg, all the way to Cheech & Chong
  Cypress Hill, Robert Downey hit the bong
  Ricky Williams, fuck how Miami feeling
  Smoke some weed!"
• Billy Joel wrote what may be the most accurate Deconstruction of the character type in "Captain Jack". In the words of the man himself:
  What's so terrible about a college teen's life that he has to shoot heroin? People say the song promotes drugs and masturbation, I say no. This guy's a loser.
• Willie Nelson, in keeping with his "outlaw country" image, is a major activist for marijuana rights, and has even done a bit of jail time for weed-related offenses. Now that it's becoming more legalized in the USA, he's announced plans to launch his own self-branded line of cannabis products.
• Danny "Sexbang" Avidan of Ninja Sex Party has admitted to being one in his twenties, describing one particular incident of him spending three straight days sitting on a couch doing nothing but eating pot brownies. He eventually quit and since a stomach illness prevents him from drinking alcohol (not that he had much of a taste for it to begin with), his only vice nowadays is Skittles.
• Pretty much everyone in OF is known to enjoy marijuana, with the exception of Straight Edge Tyler.
• Sean Paul. He even wrote a song called "We Be Burnin'" which is a plea to legalize marijuana. Executive Meddling made him record a Bowdlerized version suitable to play on mainstream radio.
• Subverted in Ka'ikena Scanlan's Hawaiian hit, Smoke All Day. The Intentionally Awkward Title refers to, as the song says, "smok[ing] meat, not drugs", and was recorded as a anti-drug anthem, especially against crack and meth.
• Snoop Dogg. Smoke weed erryday~ In the first of his Reddit AMAs, he claimed to smoke 81 blunts a day. This claim is The Other Wiki official, by the way.
• Wheeler Walker Jr. and his aptly-named song, "I Like Smoking Pot (A Lot)".
  I like smokin' pot a lot
  I like gettin' stoned alone
  I like vapin' weed indeed
  I think edibles are incredible
  I sure love them gummy bears
  Hemp shampoo for my curly hairs
  Rubbin' cannabis lotion on my cock
  I like smokin' pot... a lot
  
• Method Man, out of the Wu-Tang Clan, had the most verses about lighting it. His titular song works in "fat bags of skunk" as part of its memorable drop, and ends with him coughing a lung out on a particularly thick drag.

Podcasts

• Robbie of The Adventure Zone: Balance has an ample supply of dank potions.

Pinball

• Bud in No Good Gofers gives the impression of being one, between his Fish Eyes expression, slacker voice, and occasional bouts of incoherence. Also, he's named Bud.

Professional Wrestling

• Rob Van Dam. One of his original catchphrases, playing off of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's "Austin 3:16," was "RVD 4:20: I just smoked your ass!"^note This was also a pun, since to "smoke" someone can also mean to defeat that person. This came back to haunt him in 2006, when he, along with Sabu, were arrested for marijuana possession. The worst part of this was that he was both the WWE World Heavyweight Champion and the WWE ECW Heavyweight Champion at the time of his arrest.
• How about The Brian Kendrick? He walked to the ring like a stoner before anyone even knew he really was one. In fact, most of the reason why his push was dropped so quickly and he was fired was that he repeatedly failed the marijuana portion of the wellness test. Hence, why TNA took him in and did pretty much nothing with him.
  • In a similar vein Matt Sydal spent most of his WWE tenure either injured or suspended for testing positive for THC. Sydal loves the wacky tobaccy so much that he tried to smuggle some into Japan (a country not known for having liberal drug laws, like most of East Asia) after leaving WWE, which didn't turn out too well. As such, he is no longer welcome in Japan.
• Sean Waltman, though if you've seen any of his interviews or podcast appearances you've already figured this out on your own. Kevin Nash has also spoke of his love of cannabis, in fact Nash said in an interview that the reason he no-showed Starrcade 97 was because he didn't really know how edibles worked and ate an entire pan of weed brownies, proceeding to get so bombed that he thought he was having a heart attack.
• According to Jim Cornette when WCW did a round of drug testing in 1990 the lab reported back that curtain-jerker Tom Zenk had the highest THC levels they had ever seen. Since WCW didn't have an actual drug policy (and weed was the last of their concerns to begin with) neither Zenk nor any other wrestler that failed the drug test were punished.
• New York/New Jersey indy wrestler the Grim Reefer.
• WWE's the Godfather, a wrestling pimp, would always end his prematch spiel by saying, "I want ya' to roll a fatty for this pimp daddy, light that blunt/stinky green/hydro up and say 'PIMPING AIN'T EASY!'".
• 2 Cold Scorpio. In Real Life. In an example of Older Than They Think, back in ECW in September 1995, he cut a promo on Taz where he said, "Your ass is grass, and I'm gonna smoke it," 3 1/2 years before X-Pac said it to Triple H on the March 29, 1999 Raw.
• Juggalo Championship Wrestling often has entire audiences of stoners, who love it when Weedman blows smoke out into their midst. Also, AK Izzy High. (he is).
• Indie wrestler Ruckus often has cannabis references in his ring introduction, e.g. "The Jake the Snake of getting baked, the AJ Styles of Black & Milds, the Hall and Nash of blunts and hash" (this can go on for a while), capping off with "Weighing in at a street value of 27 million dollars, RRRRRRRRRUCKUS!!!!"
• Jack Swagger. Though he doesn't act like it, it's a very well-known fact that the reason Swagger has been stuck in mid card hell for so long is that he can't stay away from the cannabis plant (well, that and behavioral issues in general). It came to bite him in the ass big time when, in the middle of the biggest push of his career, he got arrested for marijuana possession. He was back in the midcard and it's unlikely he'll ever leave it again. He's since moved on to AEW, where management doesn't care about the smoke as long as you're sober while on the clock.
• Matt Riddle, who was kicked out of UFC and had a couple of wins overturned due to his love for the herb (but mostly due to personal conflicts with Dana White)^note UFC's parent company bought WWE in 2023, unsurprisingly once they assumed full control Riddle was the first person asked to vacate the premises. He primarily uses it to alleviate the pain from his injuries and claims it's better to smoke a joint than go hard on alcohol or painkillers (a case many NFL players have also made). His preference for weed has also been incorporated into his gimmick, "The King of Bros", a mellow stoner who becomes a beast in the ring.

Stand-Up Comedy

• Dana DeLorenzo (a.k.a. Beth the Censor from "The Late Late Show") gives this trope a feminine spin. It's never stated flat-out, but her character's...unique perspective on things, the random yoga routine, and her enjoyment of peanut butter straight from the jar are a little suspicious.

Tabletop Games

• In Nomine: An alternate take on Fleurity, the Demon Prince of Drugs, proposed in Superiors 4: Rogues to Riches for more comical campaigns has him as a mellow, tie-dye wearing stoner who spends his days blissfully floating around on his ship headquarters alongside his Santana records and collection of hand-made bongs, requiring his Servitors to keep the Principality afloat in his stead while their Prince looks for God at the bottom of a bowl.

Video Games

• Assassin's Creed: Initiates: Assassin hacker Emmett smokes recreational marijuana, which distracts him enough that the Initiates spy aboard the Altair II is able to hack into Emmett's computer system and upload reports to the website.
• Dishonored 2: Emily Kaldwin, the canon protagonist, is revealed to be one in her letters from her lover Wyman. Said lover introduced her to the illegal white leaf tobacco, which is read next to a hookah and upon inspection, she'll remark she had "good times" with Wyman and her friends in the past. A rare case where she isn't portrayed with all the negative and stereotypical traits associated with it.
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Ryder is almost always seen holding a joint and smoking it nonstop. He is also quite rude, sarcastic, has No Indoor Voice, and doesn't really think things through. (Of course, what Ryder's smoking is sherm, a joint dipped in PCP, which would explain at least some of his behavior.)
• Grand Theft Auto V: One of the Strangers and Freaks that all three protagonists can interact with is a man named Barry, an activist for marijuana legalization. While Michael and Trevor trip absolute balls when they take a puff of his stash, Franklin isn't very affected due to his own regular usage. As such, Barry recruits Franklin to retrieve stashes of weed from across the city to be used in a "smoke-in" at City Hall. As Franklin retrieves the stashes, it become clear that Barry is getting high on the supply himself, to the extent that when Franklin shows up for the smoke-in, he's the only one there because Barry and his buddies got so baked off their asses, they completely forgot about it.
• Pillars of Eternity: Zahua; as part of his order's Warrior Monk training, he routinely does a cocktail of mood-altering drugs and hallucinogens. He spends most of the adventure completely stoned and/or tripping, occasionally making non-sequitur comments about whatever he's hallucinating at the time. To a much lesser extent, banter involving Zahua, Hiravias, and Edér suggest all three are casual users of the marijuana-like whiteleaf plant.
• Reality-On-The-Norm has Melt and Drake, a pair of friends who live in a dilapidated apartment and spend most of their time doing drugs. There's also Doc, a drug-addicted hyperactive journalist who is a parody of Hunter S. Thompson.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: There is a bartender and dope dealer in S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky named Ganja, who is also a heavy drinker as well. Although we can't buy his weed or see him toking or high.
• Warcraft: The Tauren Chieftan is implied to be a bit of a stoner in Warcraft III, with several of his Stop Poking Me! lines implying that his Peace Pipe has something other than tobacco in it.
  "Pass the peace pipe."
  "Hey, puff, puff, give, that's the rule."
  "Oh, I can see my ancestors."

Webcomics

• The Bird Feeder has Exotic, an exotic bird with strange tales of its faraway homeland, Combrobway. It even has its own special birdseed which "does strange things to you," as shown in #33, "Apologies and new exotic seeds."
• Az, Ragz, and G-man in Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell are three shaggy-haired, tie-dyed angels who do nothing all day long but smoke pot, watch TV and eat Cheetos, which they do on Darwin's couch while mooching off his hospitality. They speak in a drawl peppered with "man"s and their names are even stonerfied versions of classic angel names (Azrael, Rafael, Gabriel). One arc reveals that they once had a mission on earth, but they got too into drugs after arriving in the '60s and completely forgot about it.
• The Guide to a Healthy Relationship: Kevin's got a wacky, unconcerned mellow attitude. He is the only one explicitly doing other drugs than alcohol and cigarettes on a regular basis. Note that he's also arguably the nicest guy of the group, although so out of it most of the time that he's also a real pushover.
• Homestuck:
  • Gamzee, though since he's an alien from another dimension he gets high exclusively on sopor slime pies. Later subverted when it turns out that when he isn't stoned, Gamzee is rather intelligent and frighteningly powerful. It's mentioned he did more damage to the Final Boss in one hit than the god-tier member of the team could. Oh, and he also happens to be murderously psychotic.
  • According to Word of God, Meulin gets stoned on catnip, and her happy-go-lucky but lazy personality is a reference to this trope. She gets stoned with her friend Kurloz, but like Gamzee he only superficially fits the archetype (although, since the audience should be expecting this, it isn't a subversion or a twist in any way).
  • Damara is seen smoking a joint in a lot of her animations and tells Meenah to "Chill the fuck out. Let's touch each other. Please get stoned with me." However, in her case, it's just a cover for her bitterness and foul personality.
• Joe vs. Elan School: Joe explicitly states that he's the exact opposite of this trope; Whenever he smokes weed, he suddenly gets a surge of energy and anything that he'd normally take time doing would be done surprisingly quickly.
• Knuckles and Cheeto Man in Tails Gets Trolled. Knuckles once blunders into a camp of trolls while already high and proceeds to smoke even more with them. Cheeto Man hotboxes while training Tails. And he's Knuckles' dealer.

Web Originals

• Sassy the Sasquatch and the other sasquatches of The Big Lez Show. There is no point in the series where they don't have drugs. Justified in that drugs are good for them.
• Mario and Luigi in the mashed toon, Luigi’s Nightmare. The whole Mushroom Kingdom and their good looks is nothing more than them high on drugs. In actuality, they are two ugly old stoned men in Vice City. Peach may be this as well.
• Befitting his gimmick of Michael Jackson as a trap rapper, Michael Trapson frequently smokes weed in his videos, and has even released weed anthems parodying Jackson's songs.
• Jim Anchower of The Onion. He's a lazy slacker who can't hold down a job for too long, and his lazy ways, love of pot, and perpetually-broken car ensure he never achieves anything he sets out to do. His columns derive humor from Jim's haplessness and meandering narration.
• SCP Foundation SCP-1481 is a perpetually stoned genie whose "magic lamp" is a plastic coffee cup. Due to his drug-addled state, he's hopelessly inept at granting wishes, usually just conjuring up food to sate his munchies instead, and desperately asking for drugs. He's so out of it that it never crosses his mind that he can just conjure up drugs for himself as he does with the food, and when someone points it out, he suffers a Heroic BSoD. In a rare moment of lucidity, he reveals that all he wants to do is grant wishes and make people happy, but some utter bastard used his first wish to turn him into the train wreck that he is, used his second wish to make his first wish irreversible, and then just walked away, all purely For the Evulz.
• The Meme character "Scumbag Steve" sometimes deals with breaches of etiquette related to use of marijuana. His counterpart "Good Guy Greg" actually has a joint in his mouth, but is invariably presented as kind and considerate.
• Weezy F Broly in SSJ9K's parody of Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan. Paragus makes him smoke the "Tree of Might" instead of using a Power Limiter to keep him under control. When he becomes the Legendary Bodybuilder Saiyan, the high wears off.
• The stoner clique at Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe is called the Dylans. As in 'everybody must get stoned'.
• Burner Man in AWD's Wily Shorts.
  Burner Man: Guys, I have like totally no idea what is going on!
• One day, Gambit Gaming's Evgeny "Darien" Mazaev walked up to the stage looking not too crispy. Then a Youtuber named dodgedlol took that bit, edit in the smokes and snoop dogg remix and you'll have the best memetic stoner the League of Legends community has seen.

Western Animation

• BoJack Horseman has several characters who do drugs, but Todd fits the trope description as the friendly slacker who usually avoids the show's more serious drama.
• In The Cleveland Show, Tim's son Raymond can get so high that he can't register the full impact of a speeding race car but still walk unharmed, or toss a really slow pitch violating time physics.
• Dave from Code Monkeys is a huge one- he's been known to have a massive bong he dubbed "Wrath of Bong", and is the source of drug-related things at Gameavision.
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law plays with the common Fanon that Shag and Scoob from Scooby-Doo are stoners when the two are arrested and put on trial for possession. In the end, it turns out they weren't high at all — they're just stupid.
• Looney Tunes: Speedy Gonzalez's cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez has all the characteristics of a typical stoner. He's always hungry and he moves slowly. Slowpoke also has slurred speech and droopy eyes.
• Regular Show: Muscle Man has several characteristics of a typical stoner. He's fat, always hungry, has a Pink Floyd poster, and loves to scream and squeal a lot. Muscle Man also has noticeable bloodshot pink eyes. All these indicate that he could be on marijuana.
• Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. While it was never canonized, in every conceivable way, he is your typical stoner hippy. He is stick-thin, scruffy, always hungry, willing to eat dog snacks, and always freaking out.
• The Simpsons: Adult Bart, judging from a scene in "Bart to the Future" where President Lisa asks how she can repay him.
  Bart: Legalize it.
  Lisa: Legalize what?
  Bart: [sly look]
  Lisa: Oh! Consider it done.
  • Otto, the school bus driver. In "The Seven-Beer Snitch", Otto's urine sample contains so many illegal drugs that when Otto looks at it, it resembles a scene from The Beatles film Yellow Submarine. And only actually contains "trace amounts of human urine". In the Movie, it's implied that Otto spent almost the entire movie stoned out of his head and didn't notice a thing that was going on.
• Manic from Sonic Underground talks and generally acts stoned most of the time, and he's a thieving pickpocket from the lowest classes — a background prone to stumbling into drug habits. It wasn't canonized but it's an opinion shared by many fans and critics of the show alike.
• South Park: Towelie. Don't forget to bring a towel. "You wanna get high?"

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