Ways in Which Real Life is Like a Dystopian Science Fiction Novel, Part 1 of Infinity

There is a plant. When a person burns the flowers and leaves of this plant and inhales the resulting smoke, the person's brain chemistry is altered, often pleasurably. Said activity is against the law. If someone is suspected of said activity, people enter the home of that person. If that person drops to the ground fast enough, he has the privilege of going on living locked in a small room. If not, the other people use complicated pieces of metal that they carry to fire other, smaller pieces of metal into the person's body, killing him instantly.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/17/las-vegas-cop-killing-of-father-to-be-in-pot-raid-reemphasizes-need-for-marijuana-legalization/