Libertarians have it right on drugs- legalise them!

Originally my worthy opponent argued for his point of view with the powerful weapons of half-baked misapplied statistics and fuzzy logic. Which was amusing. (Showing that there were more drug arrests than murder arrests to prove that the police care more about marijuana than rape victims I think was hilarious) Even MORE amusing is my opponent's retreat to the use of WISHFUL thinking. Ladies and Gentlemen, let us once again dive into the long term view of the logical consequences of recreational drug legalization shall we? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The year is 2008. The Supreme Court rules that an individual's right to use recreational drugs is implied in the Constitution and cannot be abridged by any act of Congress or the President. In light of this sweeping ruling regarding recreational drug usage, all laws inhibiting drug usage or sales is suddenly repealed. The Natural consequence is for the pharmaceutical industry to step in and assume control over the production and distribution of drugs. (This was my first UNCHALLENGED point. Which is too late to challenge by the way) After all, it's a product with enormous potential for profit, and a relatively low cost of production. Soon there will be Pfizer Cocaine for stock brokers, Johnson & Johnson marijuana to help your anorexic child, and Bayer's Morphine, after all, who needs Advil when you have Morphine? And with drug use legalized, these companies would then undergo a rigorous advertising campaign to promote these drugs. (Also a very important and very UNCHALLENGED point) Now let's take a long view. It's now 2020. 12 years since the legalization of drugs and the Pharmaceutical turf war. My opponent wishfully thinks that during this time millions will still be spent on AIDS and Cancer research because "there is tons of money and glory in those too". But let's face reality here. Drug companies spend money to make money. AIDS and Cancer research has POTENTIAL for profit ... but the legalization of drugs gives Pharmaceutical companies a much easier way to make huge profits. Because they're addictive, it's more important to advertise than to research. Any reasonable pharmaceutical company will shift their resources towards marketing their brand name recreational drugs instead of wasting time on the UNCERTAIN venture of Cancer research which thanks to patent research is a very very uncertain venture. So after 12 years of rigorous advertising, and advances in consumer research to make advertising more effective, we'll have a generation of young and middle aged Americans addicted to recreational drugs. My opponent wants me to produce a crystal ball to "prove" this inevitability ... well, as I said, wishful thinking. Just look at how many Americans smoke cigarettes. And Cigarettes Don't even DO anything! Weed produces an incredible hallucinogenic experience, cocaine produces a sense of EUPHORIA. Are you kidding me? Even without advertisements, these substances are incredibly tempting. With Advertisements? If advertisements could get you to inhale a noxious smoke which makes you cough and vomit .... how hard can it be to hook millions of Americans on Euphoria?? And with that established, everything else follows. Amsterdam is irrelevant. The fact that companies have not taken advantage of the Amsterdam market is because Amsterdam has a pathetic population of 1.5 million. America has a population of 350 million. So when the religious fanatics rally their religious soldiers in a crusade against Recreational Drug use, Pfizer will have a multi million (or billion) dollar vested interest in protecting it's market. Oh they will "run the risk" then. Thus eventually we will be overrun by Indians. The End.