This KUER article has given me something to ponder: Why Are A Growing Number of Ex-Mormons Using Psychedelics? Psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana.  Seems like these are something like a new iteration of the "Tower of Babel."  Consider this description in the 2018 Ensign: Mind-altering substances seem to be like the tower.  An attempt to find something of the divine, to "reach unto heaven" and man-made.  A "counterfeit."  Using materials and means other than what God has authorized