Have you actually done any of the drugs Saunders did? If you had, you wouldn't write:

    "[R]ide a bicycle from Ramona to Borrego Springs and we can stop for apple pie
     in Santa Ysabel.  These drugs are a pale comparison."

I'm all for some early morning bike riding and... well, I'm paleo, so kinda oppose the apple pie thing... but I have no idea how you can suggest that: getting away with the wife for the weekend at a spa... with some Ecstasy... is a "pale comparison" to some early morning bike riding...

    ... you will learn nothing the world doesn't already know.

The world doesn't know what's going on in my head (or why was Wil Wheaton's post on depression so highly regarded?). Drugs [used 1-2 times per year] have helped me understand what's going on in my head. Therefore, I have learned something the world doesn't know and your statement is false. [Of course, you could argue that drugs only confused me into thinking I knew myself better, but... meh.]

    If anything, you'll cloud the picture.

My drug use has done anything but cloud the picture. Unfortunately, I did know people (particularly in college) for whom picture clouding occurred.