I have come to the conclusion that anyone who wants to be a nonconformist in our current society must be ready to endure ridicule , sanctions (legal and otherwise) ,and any other hardship the government can think up. I was under the mistaken impression that we in America were living in a republic not a dictatorship, whatever happened to individual liberty. And for that matter whatever happened to freedom of choice. We are no longer in charge of our own lives . I can vaguely recall a time when what we wore and ate and smoked was no body's business but our own . where did we go wrong?