Kdollar, I have to disagree with the whole “land of the free” approach. It’s much more complicated than that. For example, I’m free to take my money and spend it on marijauna, but I would be put in jail for that. Students are free to skip class, but they aren’t going to pass. We are free to promote gambling, but will suffer whatever consequences that the law institutes.
Think of walking into a courtroom and tell the judge “its a free country, I can do what I want” He’d laugh at you and toss your ass in jail for whatever you did wrong (like spend money that YOU earned on drugs that you WANTED to consume).