Any drug less than 100 years old is an ongoing medical experiment and whoever takes it is a lab rat.
Nobody knows if your kid is going to have webbed toes from you taking it.

Anybody using violence or fraud to harm others will only have one real option, and this is to stop doing it.
IF they don't stop on their own, they will be made to stop.
Civilized society demands it.

So, as long as you don't physically harm others, nor trick them out of their stuff, it is unlikely that you will even know who the animal control people are, nor that they really exist.
'That's just a story they tell to the kids to keep them in line.'

Freedom is nearly always the better choice.
Giving somebody authority over you is a recipe for disaster, imo.
https://www.mensenrechten.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/the-most-dangerous-superstition-larken-rose-20111.pdf