To me meditation isn't strictly about enjoying an altered state of consciousness, but primarily about securing an equanimous mental state.
I brought it up as a potential offramp from constant weed smoking, because it can function as a means to enjoy altered states of consciousness. It would also be a much more intrinsic and enduring means than substance usage, a means that can be employed whenever, wherever, freely.
But again for me its not just about getting experiential kicks. Skydiving on acid was about experiential kicks, but meditating is profoundly more important, in my eyes. And again my primary meditating practice, should it be called that, is more of a waking seeing-through of experience, rather than an inactive/idle practice, which I have much less experience with, i.e. sukhasana.