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Eternal Prohibition
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Drugs Are Bad. So bad that even in the future, 20th-century drug laws remain unchanged. Nevertheless, alcohol and tobacco remain legal, as are 'stims'. Apparently, the citizens of The Future are more traditional than we realize. This is most frequent in TV, presumably because producers are unwilling to risk controversy by including real drugs, but appears in other media as well. Strangely, many future societies seem to have forgotten modern recreational chemistry, and have just one or two illicit drugs (e.g., Dust and Stims in Babylon 5), which you will never see a character actually using, but which is clearly bad. Ironically, with some cities now banning excessively large sugary soft drinks (or, more precisely, the cups in which they are served) due to worries about obesity and diabetes, this trope may look less and less like fiction as the years go by - only even more bizarre, with more and more harmless or at least unobjectionable substances now considered unhealthy as Science Marches On. Subtrope of Future Society, Present Values. See Eternal Sexual Freedom for modern mores working in the opposite direction. |
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The far-future world of The Dragon Doctors has an ongoing drug war, and although the details aren't clear, a Cowboy Cop brags about the fact that she allowed herself to be irreversibly turned from a man into a woman to arrest a dealer. | |
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Bleach has two characters, before a fight, having a genial conversation. Then one offers to share a drink with the other; "I can't, I'm a minor!" The refuser being in high school, and the presumptive host being several hundred years old.... | |
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Serial Experiments Lain plays this one: it's immediately obvious that 14-year-old Toru is doing wrong every time he's smoking or drinking at the Cyberia. There are stronger drugs, such as Accela, a type of "nanomachine amphetamine", is very obviously illegal, gives you instant stimulation, and makes users homicidal and/or suicidal. | |
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Happens literally in the 1930's sci-fi musical comedy Just Imagine, where Prohibition is still going strong in the far-flung future of 1980. | |
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In The 6th Day, tobacco is an illicit substance, and Arnie's character enjoys an illicit puff on one of his trademark cigars. | |
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In Minority Report the drug-addicted hero, a police officer (played by Tom Cruise) lives in a futuristic society that has flying cars, hoversuits, and future-predicting crime units, but drugs are banned. | |
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In the X-Universe series, the Prohibition apparently never ended; Space Fuel (also known as Argon Whiskey) is illegal in known space, as is Teladi Space Weed (except in Teladi sectors). However, Space Fuel seems to be legally manufactured by some Argon stations, as the police ignore them (even as they blow up yours). Amusingly, carrying Space Fuel in the cargo bay is illegal everywhere, so you can park a ship outside of a Space Fuel Distillery and scan the cargo of every cargo ship leaving the station, and then attack them for violating the law. Spirits are made legal in X: Rebirth, set several decades after the end of the main series, but carrying them without a license will get you shot up by the police. |
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Spirits are made legal in X: Rebirth, set several decades after the end of the main series, but carrying them without a license will get you shot up by the police. | |
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EVE Online: Played with: while plain old street narcotics and heavy-dose, skill-affecting "combat boosters" are nearly universally illegal, there exist versions of the latter that are universally legal; it's a bit like banning coffee, except for decaf. Everything is legal in 0.0 space, where there is no police but that which the players muster themselves. And just like in the real world, drug manufacturing is quite profitable. |
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Sliders: In "Greatfellas", Prohibition was never repealed, which the allowed the crime families to gain greater influence and power. In "The Java Jive", coffee, alcohol, tobacco and red meat are all banned. |
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Like everything else in Futurama, this is Played Straight or Averted as Rule of Funny demands. Recreational marijuana remains illegal in (New) New York State even though crack cocaine is readily available in vending machines. | |
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In the Wing Commander universe, Privateer allows players to smuggle two illegal drugs: "Brilliance" and "Ultimate". Getting caught with either means a shootout with police. You can, however, carry as much alcohol aboard your ship as it can hold without any paperwork, and not get in trouble. | |
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Played straight with the United World in Escape from Terra, but the Belters avert it along with every other "victimless crime". In one case a hippie who had to leave California in a hurry gets a steady job on Ceres growing cannabis in the agricultural tower, while his "friend" the drug dealer finds it hard to get customers. | |
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In The Lydian Option, "Janta Leaf" is portrayed as a mild drug being smuggled by the protagonist - humans view it as a minor offense, but the Tha'Latta punish it with permanent imprisonment. | |
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Jasper from Children of Men complains about the government sending out suicide kits with the food rations but not legalizing cannabis. | |
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Eclipse Phase: In the Jovian Republic opiates, cocaine, any of the various drugs in the setting that use nanotech, and tobacco are illegal, though alcohol and cannabis are allowed. In less conservative areas, that is to say, the rest of the solar system, drug laws vary a great deal. | |
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In UFO (1970), the characters smoke in computer rooms, medical areas, and closed environments like SHADO's underground headquarters, submarines and the Moonbase. Some scenes look like they've been filmed through a minor fog. | |
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Somewhat justified the Crusader games, where the future world government is run a repressive Mega-Corp that, while it doesn't care about worker safety, also probably wouldn't even allow things like cigarette breaks. | |
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On Andromeda obviously there's no problem with drinking, although nicotine seems to have become obsolete. The only drug left seems to be 'Flash', which is used as eye drops. | |
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Battlestar Galactica: In early seasons the characters appear to live in the 1930s, drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. Partially subverted in the new series where 'Chamalla' is a legal hallucinogen sometimes used for religious purposes. And in one flashback President Roslin and Admiral Adama enjoy an unnamed substance strongly resembling Marijuana.note The legal status of Chamalla seems to be akin to that of Peyote in the US — it is a controlled substance with specific exceptions for medical and religious use, and it becomes a matter of political scandal when Roslin is suspected of using it recreationally. Treating cancer was seen as a reasonable excuse, but seeking religious visions was not. At the very least the President should not be taking a hallucinogen while making vital decisions. Fighter pilots are encouraged to take stims, which can lead to addiction if not carefully monitored, as exemplified by Kat. | |
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Trading in narcotics is a surefire way to get a criminal record in all installments of the Elite franchise; only planets that are explicitly in a state of total anarchy allow you to buy and sell them the old-fashioned way. Some planets also ban alcoholic beverages as well, usually for religious reasons. | |
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Demolition Man: The first thing Human Popsicle Sly Stallone does on awakening is ask for a cigarette, only to be told it's illegal. In fact, everything "not good for you is banned". Using the logic; it is not good, it must be bad, therefore it is illegal. This includes alcohol, meat, spicy foods, sexual contact (due to a series of STD pandemics), swearing... | |
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In Escape from L.A., the US has become a totalitarian state with a permanent Christian fundamentalist President. Naturally, he immediately outlaws many of the things we enjoy today including smoking, alcohol, red meat, and extramarital sex. It's a good thing Snake doesn't much care for laws. | |
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In Quantum Vibe Nicole once gets arrested when some Lunar cops plant a drug known as "cheez"note in modern parlance, heroin and methamphetamine on her. She comes from the much more libertarian L5 station and had no idea what they were talking about until a lawyer explained it. | |
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In contradiction of the trope's description, both those drugs are used by main characters in Babylon 5. As it turns out, there is very good reason that "Dust" is illegal—despite seemingly being Space Cocaine, it actually temporarily gives the user Psychic Powers, namely the power to Mind Rape someone (which G'Kar does to Londo after he gets his hands on some); it may technically be a drug, but the main characters treat it as a munition. As for stims, which aren't actually illegal, a major plot arc is Doctor Franklin's addiction and recovery. The trope is also averted in that coffee is still in use, albeit hard to get for logistics reasons, and several characters are alcoholics. One early plot also involves a dispute over a plant that the Narn use as religious incense but the Centauri use as a recreational drug. | |
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In Diaries of a Madman, alcohol is banned in Equestria following a Noodle Incident with one of the princesses, though Celestia turns a blind eye to Nav sharing secrets on how to make it. It's averted with most other drugs however, which are freely sold and consumed. | |
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Judge Dredd. In Mega-City One, coffee and sugar are illegal, since they are not only addictive, but their status as physical stimulants is a big problem in a place where the vast majority of people live an existence of total, idle luxury — they could get even more out of control than they already do. Synthetics are used instead, but synthi-coffee was too good and became considered addictive, so it was outlawed. Hence, people drink synthi-synthi-coffee. | |
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