on one hand, doing drugs really does have benefits (at least in the moment--sometimes permanently depending on what kind of drugs we're talking about), and his speech could be interpreted as coming from the moralistic and wholesome Establishment... on the other hand, he's completely right, all those things have a high likelihood of happening, and it's amazing to me that so many people fall into those pitfalls without seeing ahead of time where drugs so often lead, so it's an important reminder.