In your above quote, I have a question. Wouldn't the nicotine in cigarettes give you the same affect? Isn't that why people smoke, because of how the nicotine alters there mood and mental state? Isn't alcohol the same thing? people drink it for the affect it has on there mental state? why are they any different? If this verse is saying that taking drugs for the purpose of being in an altered state is sin, then how is smoking and drinking not included?