Marijuana should be legalized as a spark for small business ownership

Silver Eagle Distributors, the largest Anhueser Busch distributor in the world, is located in Texas. Also in Texas are 112 different microbrew companies and brewpubs. Around the nation are 56 here in Florida, 52 in GA, 126 in Colorado, 120 in Oregon, 61 in New York, 156 in Washington (state), and in my opponents backyard, California, there are 112. (http://brewpubzone.com...) I suppose they didn’t receive his memo that there was no way to be profitable. “There's a lot of good reasons to legalize pot, some hippy pipedream of everybody making infinite profits off a market traded good, you could grow in your backyard, and magically repel corporate interests in this perpetual profit machine, is not one of those reasons.” I don’t remember ever stating anything remotely close to this comment. What I did say is that legalizing pot is a great way to start small business growth and infuse the economy with taxes to help relieve our deficit spending. My opponent just makes things up to justify his point while never once offering any proof or statistics to verify his opinion. I don’t suppose that he has ever done a Market Analysis, SWOT Analysis , or prepared any Business Plan whatsoever because if he did he would know that Supply and Demand have nothing to do with survivability, that is controlled by marketing. I would say that water is abundant (water covers 71% of the Earth's surface) (http://en.wikipedia.org...) yet I would be willing to bet that even my opponent has a bottle or two in his fridge while also having a water source somewhere in his house and probably another nearby. Supply and demand does not work in this case and boils down to marketing. Even at the local clubs people hook themselves up to oxygen and pay for it while still being able to breath normally after their jaunt. My opponent talks about hemp diminishing the price of marijuana. He has done absolutely ZERO research and this is clear in the fact that industrial hemp has little THC, the key component that gets you “high” and it is the loosely worded drug laws that keep the product from being grown even though certain cultures rely on it for survival, like the HOPI tribe. Tartarizer uses tomatoes as an example and I go back to the fact that again he apparently knows nothing of marijuana. People do not grow or give up on tomatoes because of the high cost of pesticides you have to buy to keep them alive. Marijuana has THC a natural insect repellent that tomatoes lack though they both grow with relative ease and minimum fertilizer. I have clearly illustrated my point throughout this debate and have provided facts, statistics and examples of business models of the past that would easily transfer to business of “pot” while my opponent has stated opinion and rhetoric the entire time and offering no sources for his argument. My statement was that legalizing marijuana wld be a spark for small business growth and it inevitably would be. In business some succeed and some fail and not every one can be successful but conversely not everyone can fail so long as there is a dream and a plan. I now leave my opponent with the opportunity to close and look forward to the results