[inquest]

The case required the court to balance the government's interest in punishing nonviolent crime with a person's constitutional right to control his or her body.

Rulings like this are going to be the death of constitutional protections. The Constitution either protects, or it doesn't protect - that is, a right either exists or it doesn't exist. There's no "balance" involved.

[coloradan]

a person's constitutional right to control his or her body.

What right is this, and how does the War On (some) Drugs mesh with this right?

[thoughtomator]

Agreed. Government has no legitimate interest that has the weight to balance against a citizen's Constitutional rights.