Any debate on the drug war is prone to degenerate into absurdities. It’s unfortunate, because I think it’s an important debate to have.
Yes, but Paul started his statement with an absurdity. When you claim that you have a first amendment right to heroin, you're making an absurd statement - and, it's such an absurd statement, anything that comes after will be ignored.
This is the Paulian default mode, though. You might recall the statement Rand made shortly after he won the GOP Senatorial nomination - he commented in response to a question that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was unconstitutional and shopkeepers did have a right to keep blacks from the lunch counter because it's a private lunch counter.
While that might be an interesting academic discussion to have amongst friends at a dinner party, to say those words on national TV, much less in public, is politically INSANE. The "defense of heroin is no vice" maneuver that Ron pulled last night, was just ignorant.