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Trying to eradicate drugs is as much a nanny state tactic as providing healthcare for people who have made bad choices. If we don't have government programs to redistribute wealth, we don't have to worry about abuses of the programs.

Let people make all the bad choices they want, then let them live or die with the consequences. It's ridiculous to establish "free healthcare" programs, then pass laws further expanding government powers in order to protect the programs from fraud. The programs are fraudulent in and of themselves. It's particularly dishonest to use the existence of such unconstitutional programs as the justification for even more unconstitutional government action.

Much of what you say is correct. Once you decide to provide government healthcare, you have gone down a very slipery (and foolish) slope.

Regarding the supposed unconstitutionality of this action, it clearly is not. Unfortunately, the courts, (which decide these matters) have said it is legal. Rather than trying to interpret the constitution for ourselves, we need to elect legislators and officials, and get appointed judges who will move to ammend the COnstitution to outlaw such actions.