Is It Ok to Laugh?

This chapter focuses on the drug-use-related expression of laughter. The discussion about research ethics linked to the interviewees’ positive feelings evoked by drug use is deepened, with a focus on subsequent laughter and humour as aspects of drug use. The chapter explores the meaning of laughing at drug use from a gender perspective, and the specificity in the pattern of the funny stories the women told. These narrations challenge the stereotype of them as mad, sad and bad in positioning them as mad, but funny and even heroic in their madness.