Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. The lines separating legal from illegal drugs are not based on scientific criterion but on an arbitrary moralistic and political agenda. People in the US suffer increasing intrusions on their privacy, including phone taps, invasive urine testing, garbage and mail searches, computer searches of bank records and utility bills, even infrared scanning of homes to see the amount of heat a building gives off. Warrants are issued based on hearsay evidence and served up with battering rams. Employees are subject to random drug testing as a job requirement, with neither probable cause nor warrant.
Police sweep neighborhoods and block public roadways to search people and vehicles with dogs.
Buying garden supplies from a store under police surveillance can lead to a search of your home. The family is a primary target of the Drug War. Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police and informants can keep the assets they confiscate, and obvious conflicts of interest arise. Everything from businesses to piggy banks can be taken. Property of innocent parties has been seized by police agencies without convictions.