I have a fairly old light/sound/mind machine that I still use. I love it. It's great for meditation, but the main reason I bought it was that I heard it would help with migraines. It does, in fact. It doesn't get rid of them, but it helps to ease the effects quite a bit.
And, not to insult, but it can also make me a bit "high"--but then again, so does meditation.
Just my personal opinion, but I think a lot of people who use and/or abuse drugs are looking for exactly the effects you can get with long-term meditation or using one of these machines. Since I've never used "smack" I can't possibly compare, but I do recall meds given before surgery, and the effects are somewhat similar--floaty, mellow--EXCEPT with this machine, I'm in complete conscious control. So it's even better than pharmaceuticals.
One of these days I need to update and get one of the newer ones. I hear they're light years better than the one I have.
