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A drug is a natural or chemical substance that is used for medicinal or recreational purposes. A drug can be used to relieve pain when a person has sustained an injury or is going through a surgical procedure. However, a drug can also enhance one's own abilities and provide stimulative energy for completion of a task, or it can calm a person down from enduring stressful activity.
An unfortunate problem with a drug is that it can be potentially addictive, requiring the person to take in more of the drug to maintain their stability at the risk of causing damage to one's health. Another problem with drugs is that they have potential side effects that can lead to death, and that some of them can cause hallucinations (nonexistent sights, sounds, and smells) as well as various types of visual distortions to occur within the person taking them, though some cultural rituals consider them useful for embarking on "vision quests" or spiritual channeling. For those who suffer from hallucinations without the use of drugs, some drugs may be used as inhibitors to prevent such things from occurring.
In Smurfs media[]
In the comic books, grain alcohol is the only known recreational drug used among Smurfs as well as human characters like Gargamel in "The Clockwork Smurf," although in some works like "Bathing Smurfs," the Smurfs can experience drug-like effects such as intoxication from mundane sources like berry juice. In "The Smurfnapper", Gargamel spoke of taking hellebore seeds to deal with how the key could have gotten out of his pocket and into the lock of his captured Smurf while he slept.
In the cartoon show, there are magical substances such as the Forget Me Flowers, Gargamel's Daredevil Dust, Giggle Glitter, and Allura's magic orb that have effects similar to those of drugs, but for the most part drug use is not encouraged among the Smurfs, since the episode stories are mostly written for children. Real drugs such as marijuana were touched upon in the cartoon crossover special "Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue".
In the 2011 Smurfs movie, Papa Smurf confesses to be a coffee drinker, while Grouchy experiences a mellow form of sugar high from eating blue M&Ms, which leads to his conversation with a green M&M plushie at the FAO Schwarz toy store in New York City.