I watched a documentary on police in Texas and apparently there you can get serious jail time even if just "caught" in a traffic stop with what I consider small

I watched a documentary on police in Texas and apparently there you can get serious jail time even if just "caught" in a traffic stop with what I consider small amounts of relatively harmless drugs like marijuana. Saw them arrest a teenager and the cops said she was going to jail. Absolute unjustifiable madness, there must be so many lives that have been ruined over this. Really broke my heart watching this and the police have no sympathy, they treated the kid like she's some dangerous criminal. It's hard to understand how a nation can pride itself in being the 'land of the free' while having such dystopian law enforcement. They apparently pick you up and drive you home if you're underage and out too late as well. Kids can shoot guns but they basically control every other aspect of your life. And you better not get into an argument with them or you may be assaulted, it's like dealing with the Sturmabteilung.