Event Idea: Ambiguous Drug Abuse?

While intoxicants have inevitable biochemical consequences, it occured to me the other day that much of the "experience" of doing drugs & alcohol has to do with the enviroment and setting in which it occurs. That is to say, it's not so much the effects of an intoxicant so much as the fact that everyone is doing it together that adds the fun to the evening.

This even takes place on a pretty basic level. Cigarettes, for example, have relatively minor (compared to other things you might potentially do), but partially what makes them so enjoyable is the fact that you're standing around with people doing it together.

I think it'd be interesting to try to isolate this particular factor and separate it out from the biochemical effect by experimenting with a variety of conceptual events where people all do some unconventional benign chemical together and hang out while they take their effect.

For example, one could imagine an event where everyone takes sleeping pills together and eventually drifts off to sleep. Or, alternatively, everyone takes three or four caffine pills and drinks Vault and hangs out. Or, Vicks Vapo-Rub. You get the idea.