Drugs can help us experience states of consciousness that can help develop into higher stages of conscious development. It's not just in the area of smokers and psychodelics that people confuse the two. Experiencing a taste of enlightenment does not make you enlightened, regardless of how it came. But those experiences can expand your awareness in ways that help you develop. The hard part about drugs is that you get so altered that it's harder to bring that experience back to normal awareness. But then...you never bring the whole thing back anyway. The real question is whether you're using them to wake up or to go to sleep. Just be smart about it if you do use.
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