Narcotics and hallucinogenic drugs were not uncommon in NT times.
For instance, the Oracles of Delphi apparently used *Datura* during their quests for visions. This is the scientific, Latin classification of Jimson weed. It contains powerful alkaloids (biochemical bases of vegetable origin which include many other drugs, quite a number of which have narcotic or hallucinogenic effects: e.g. mescaline, cocaine, morphine, etc., etc.).
In Carlos Casteneda's books about his anthropological research with a Yaqui Indian 'brujo' (Spanish for 'witch', or 'sorcerer'), we encounter Datura being employed for vision quests. The sorcerer also uses mescaline, and various other substances.
Now, the majority of people abusing drugs today aren't using the drugs as parts of deliberate supernatural rituals, but for 'recreation'.
The supernatural, however, is inescapable whether a person believes in it or not.
One form of worship today which doesn't seem like religion at first, but which is very common and which does in fact have supernatural significance, is Self. People love pleasures rather than God. When we are selfish it does no harm to God, it hurts us.
Much drug use today begins as a quest for self-absorbed pleasure, or escape. The drugs are not inherently evil in themselves. The evil emerges from unredeemed hearts and minds as they commit spiritual adultery.
The enemy tries to fuel these processes along, trying to bring people under physical, psychological and spiritual bondage. Satanists are often involved in chains of supply, and they are involved in two ways.
First of all, people covenanted with the evil one are often the actual suppliers of drugs. Noticed how it often happens that authorities arrest users, dealers and smugglers, but very seldom the actual, original suppliers? They seem 'protected', and are, by dark forces.