When you are a smoker. You crave nicotine.
When you are a human, you crave.
When you are a buddhist, you fight craving with meditation.
When a smoker is smoking, she is (relatively) relaxed, sociable and in good humour.
When a buddhist has meditated, they are in a similar state.
The goal is the same: the cessation of craving and, thus, the cessation of suffering.
Drug use automatically leads to enlightenment as users become obsessed with craving, just like buddhists, and enter into regular states of being explicitly aware that their craving has ceased, just like buddhists. These states occur when the user uses.
The meditator hopes to extend this state beyond moments of practice into all moments of their conscious life. The committed drug user similarly hopes to extend this state into all moments by using amounts which bring the explicit high (explicit awareness of the absence of craving) at all times.
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