If they are happy-ish why want anyone to awaken?

[xise]

It isn't suppression, suppression is akin to pushing down the thoughts, this is substance abuse, and it is no different from me lighting up a bowl of weed to calm myself down from being angry (I don't think so anyways). 

I would say suppression is a refusal/rejection of anything your conscious mind is experiencing, including emotions or feelings.

There are different sorts and levels of suppression, but I think the key element is an unwillingness to be present and experience what is on your conscious mind. So that would include the weed example. It does depend on how you define the word suppression though. But as I define the word, suppression exists at many stages of the archetypes of the mind - matrix - suppression of desire, catalyst - suppression refusal to acknowledge that are consciously feeling something, and experience - suppression that the feeling is coming from you and internal things, not external events. 

But it's something we all do, and I think it's better to pick our spiritual battles rather than to try to immediately be perfect as true spiritual evolution comes organically from working upon the self; it does not come from a ruleset that says "never suppress anything" or "don't eat meat", etc.