Land of the Free?

For a nation that proclaims itself the land of the free, there are a variety of standards within the USA when it comes to those old favourites, sex and drugs (they're working on rock and roll). While law at the federal level focuses on persecuting based on claimed connections to "terror", the states are happily going their own way to impinge on the freedoms of others for the strangest of things.

Consider the following two case studies:
couple arrested for selling sex toys.
Tommy Chong serves 9 months for selling glassware

That's right: these people were arrested, and imprisoned, not for selling drugs, not for selling sex or even pornography, but for moulded pieces of plastic and glass. And there's a lot of this going on. While the attention is distracted with wars, explosions and politics , freedoms are gently and quietly being removed. Ask yourself, how long before what you do is found to be in violation of some law or other?