The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs soon became the Drug Enforcement Agency. Other laws prohibited knowing anyone who used any of these drugs, or knowing of a place where such drugs were used or traded, or having a relative who had been accused of doing or knowing, or having property which had been accused of doing or knowing. By 1985, the Fourth Amendment had been erased. Mention was rarely made of the hundreds, thousands, of people who were searched because of bulges caused by Kleenex or gloves. By 1985, the Fourth Amendment had been erased.
Some states put people in jail for life for having a hempseed in their car trunks.
The quantity of cash in question might be no more than a couple hundred dollars. Often, officers seized thousands of dollars and kept it, on no evidence of any wrongdoing. When folks in the South began complaining of such tactics, the cops began offering drivers the option of keeping some of their own money if they would refrain from complaining. Some police agencies used the seized money to send officers on ski vacations. All this under the auspices of a queer doctrine which said that, while property can commit a crime, property is afforded no civil rights or due process.