Has this ever happened to you?

[Catwoman]

OK. So drugs won't bring you closer to spritual enlightenment. Only you can do that, and as Mari says, it is possible to have amazing spiritual experiences stone sober. But what drugs can do is act like a painkiller. Like aspirin for a headache, drugs can facilitate spiritual experience by removing the intial blockages (stress, anxiety) that are preventing spiritual exploration. To use the headache metaphor: if your headache is caused by dehydration, you drink water. If it is exhaustion, you sleep. If it is because you banged your head on a 2-ton water heater (don't ask) then you know the cause of the pain, there's not a lot you can do about it, so you might as well treat the pain and allow your body to recover - excess pain will only increase the amount of toxins and stress hormones your body produces thereby slowing recovery.

I think I may have rambled slightly there (damn weed) but my point is that there is no harm (really) using drugs to facilitate thought and perspective; just as long as you know when to stop.

Now where's that spliff?