Taking away the freedoms, definitely. I read a couple of articles about a year ago, about how the US was suppressing the personal use of foreign pharmicuticals (misspelled). They were cracking down on people who'd buy foreign prescriptions (they weren't prescribed by a doctor) and using them to ease pain. The feds said they weren't safe. Doesn't make any sense to me...

Or how about when Californians voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuanna (not sure if it was just medicinal or not) back in 96? They still can't use it, despite the fact that its not addicting, has medicinal side-effects, and is less harmful than cigarettes.

Its all about consolidating power. The screws are tightened little by little, usually under the pretense of saving just a few people, usually children.
I've got a whole list of these kinds of things. Did you know that before 1914 drugs such as cocaine and heroin were legal, you didn't even need to be licensed to sell them? Then in 1914, the feds started licensing drugs, "just to check purity, nobody will be denied a license, we'll never use this power to outlaw drugs". 15 years later, they declared war on drugs. Prior to that, drugs were a minor social problem, and there were no drug wars. Now, gang warfare, primarily drug related, kills around 1000-4000 people per year, and thousands of people are treated as criminals for smoking dope.

Adrian