The main characters sell drugs from an ice cream truck. They are seen selling beer and joints (they are seen rolling them up too) to kids as young as 12-14
Lots of drug use but mostly alcohol. Drug use is mostly brief but it can be graphic.
While there are tons of scenes of drug use (marijuana, cocaine, meth, crack, ecstacy, heroin, opium, Percocet, oxycontin etc) drug use gets more and more infrequent and brief. Yes theres tons of alchohal and smoking and drug use but this show has a strong anti drug message and will definitely throw you off the idea of heavy drug and alcohol use
There are scenes in the 2nd season with a marijuana farm and tons of marijuana dealing in the 2nd and 5th season. An opium farm is shown in the 6th seasons and plotlines of meth dealing in the 2nd, 5th, 7th and 8th seasons including meth farms being shown. In the third season a cocaine den shown
Painkillers are used quite graphically (mostly oxy and Percocet) by frank. He swallows and snorts them frequently most frequently in the 4th season
Tons of marijuana smoking per season. Teens and adults smoke joints, bongs, dab pens, bowls, pipes etc. Also some k2/spice smoking in the 5th season
Cocaine is used infrequently in the earlier seasons at party's, and party boats but there are a couple graphic scenes like a scene where people snort cocaine and a toddler ends up eating some of it. Another scene of frank and more people snorting packages of cocaine. He also smuggles cocaine and snorts it too
2 Charecters smoke crack. Another is also seen smoking crack
There is some meth smoking in the 8th and 10th seasons out of meth pipes. Bags of meth shown in graphic detail in the 7th and 8th seasons
No graphic heroin usage depicted but heroin addicts are shown and bags of heroin. Frank also shoots heroin a couple times in the 4th season where puncture holes and needles are shown. Frank preparing the heroin is also shown
Frank shoots morphine in a graphic scene. One of the more graphic depictions of drug use in the show
Monica has large ties to meth her and her boyfriend are meth dealers and meth bags are shown. Meth labs are shown as well (not graphically)
A main character is an alcoholic; this is often depicted graphically. There is also semi-regular underaged drinking, and occasional use of marijuana. Once or twice throughout the series, characters are seen using cocaine. There is also regular cigarette smoking
A character is seen consuming a great deal of pain killers, often chopping up the pills and snorting them. He is also seen shooting heroin.
One character becomes a drug dealer at a young age. He sells crack cocaine and heroin. Small backs of crack cocaine are shown and he trafficks large bags of heroin. earlier in the show he also deals meth and he helps his grandma build meth labs
Characters manage a marijuana plant warehouse, and other characters manage an opium poppy plant warehouse. This is shown in two or three episodes, and is not a regularly talked about subject.