It is only the system of punishing people for consentual, i.e. victimless, crimes that makes us both criminals and victims. I just found a book on the subject this morning (full text online at http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/aint/toc.htm ) called Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do which makes the case much more eloquently than I ever could, explaining how much energy is lost and how much damage is done to society and individuals by criminalizing acts that don't harm anyone else's bodies or properties.