I said this and the other thread and I'll say it here. In India, Sadhus sit around and smoke hash and meditate all day and they are revered as holy men. Here in the West if you do it you are lazy. Here in the west they measure you by how ambitious and outgoing you are and by what you accomplish. In the East they measure you by your contentment.
Yeah, but how many westerners do you know who use pot for the sole purpose of attaining some sort of spiritual insight? I use weed every now and then to facilitate touching the infinite, but usually it's just there for all my friends to get wacked and giggle at the wall. Here in the West there is much greater "misuse" of drugs.