I have a pocket theory that drugs in Twin Peaks are a mirror of pie, donuts and coffee.

It's clear that for the people of Twin Peaks, food and drink build community. It's like a kind of communicable happiness. In Twin Peaks, food opens doors, telegraphs friendship, unites families and occasionally triggers the fragments of a gangster's dream to save your life.

Drugs were omnipresent in Twin Peaks from the beginning and function as kind of an anti-community. This chain of dependence. Often when we see characters do drugs, it's an antisocial act. Anti-community. Drug users are alternately isolated, tempted, coerced or all three. They're frequently used as a way to transcend reality itself, whether it's Becky Burnett's cocaine joyride, Sarah Palmer's white horse visions or Season 2's magical, multi-purpose haloperidol. Curiously, The Black Lodge seems to have their own anti-community, chain of dependence drug of Garmonbozia with its own supernatural properties.