25 Best Movies About Drugs Ever Made

2. Easy Rider

Columbia PicturesThe Drugs: LSD, marijuana, cocaine, alcohol Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson star in Easy Rider, the definitive counterculture movie. Part road movie, part drug movie, infused with an eye for social and political commentary, its significance has been noted by the Library of Congress, earning it a place in their National Registry - hugely ironic, given the film's anti-establishment leanings. Fonda and Hopper play Wyatt and Billy, two bikers who, having pocketed a tidy sum from a cocaine deal, get on their bikes and head across the States to visit the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Along the way they witness the hippie dream on the cusp of wakefulness, a drunkard called George Hanson (Nicholson) with whom they indulge in a spot of LSD, and some decidedly unfriendly hillbillies. Taking a far from rose-tinted view of the flower-power movement much in the same way Hunter S. Thompson would do a few years later, Easy Rider has become something more than just a movie, more a cultural relic to be treasured for years to come.