I love meditation. It's a great way to achieve the "vertical" plane (as Carl Jung likes to put it), but it is also a much more difficult way of achieving that higher state of consciousness. Drugs are essentially the easy way out, but when you do reach that higher state without them through such practices as meditation, the result is that much more rewarding.

And yeah, Polymirize, I agree with you. I've found drugs, namely hallucinogens, to be a way to "check on yourself". If you find yourself caught up in the repetitive loops of society, perhaps drink some cactus tea and travel out to the woods, where you can view your life from an external perspective in order to reprioritize, so to speak. I remember at the end of one shroom trip I came to the conclusion that drugs are not the truth, nor are they necessarily the key to the truth. Rather, they make the path to the truth clearer to see.

By the way, Poly, I am a fellow Santa Cruzian. :rasta: