This verse and the verse before it suggests that this one plant the government has illegalized (marijuana) was actually made for our benefit. For it to be your driving force to get high (same as getting drunk), that is abuse of the plant. However, to know you can smoke marijuana to calm nerves in traumatic situations, or heal certain ailments, to take pain away, or even before you meditate and pray to God, these should be free choices we all have. Instead, the government feeds us pills and even has some Christians believing marijuana is a drug. God did not make drugs. He made plants. Marijuana is a different kind of enlightenment that the Lord created for us, and to think it should be out of reach for humankind is going against God.