“Whoo, this killed me” isn’t the same as “whoo, this is going to kill everybody.”
A robust spiritual background is a lot of what it takes to resist going head over heels for intoxicants. If I have a great spiritual game going, why should I want to knock it all to hell with this thing that just ate my brain for a day? If in fact it did.
I despise rubber-roomism. People are never going to learn to cope with life if over-sheltered by nannies.
The desire to control people is one of the most seductive and destructive addictions of all and it’s not even a substance.