It is always easy to take away people's rights. Federal government's strategy has been to isolate tiny groups and take away their rights with the support of the majority without realizing those laws will bite everyone's ass eventually. While most of us do not do drugs we all are less safe, have less rights because of the war on drugs that we have supported. We want our politicians to be "tough on crime" which only means harassing people who have been on wrong side of a complex legal system.