Some Americans are such gung ho "law and order" Nanny State authoritarians that they're perfectly wiling to grant the federal government powers which it doesn't legitimately possess under the Constitution—for instance, the power to dictate Contraband Law to the several States, infringe on the Fourth Amendment, and violate the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, to name only a few...
Even worse, some of those Nanny Staters have the gall to call themselves "conservatives."