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jgreer
01-23-2012, 10:04 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-are-newt-gingrichs-big-ideas/2011/08/25/gIQApk8pIQ_blog.html?hpid=z1

On Saturday’s edition (http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/?videoDate=20120121)
of “Up With Chris Hayes,” Gary Johnson brought up an old Newt Gingrich (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-south-carolina-a-sharply-tightened-race/2012/01/21/gIQAS6JIGQ_story.html)
idea I hadn’t heard before: Putting individuals who brought more than two ounces of marijuana into the United States to death. That sounded extreme, even for Gingrich. So I looked it up. And sure enough, there it is: “The Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996. (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h104-4170&tab=summary)
” What makes the bill even more amazing is that Gingrich himself is a confessed pot smoker. When he was young, he said, experimenting with drugs “was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era.”

Tell everybody! This is a bad guy

wingrider
01-23-2012, 10:06 AM
don't have to tell me.. Gingrich is a fool and should not be allowed anywhere near the oval office..

Go ron Paul

Conley
01-23-2012, 10:12 AM
"Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996 - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to direct the court to sentence a person convicted of bringing into the United States a proscribed quantity of a mixture or substance containing a controlled substance in an amount the Attorney General has determined is equal to 100 usual dosage amounts to life imprisonment without possibility of release (or, if the defendant has violated such provision on more than one occasion and if certain requirements under the Federal criminal code are met, to death). Makes conforming amendments to the code."


:shocked: :facepalm:

Alias
01-23-2012, 11:56 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-are-newt-gingrichs-big-ideas/2011/08/25/gIQApk8pIQ_blog.html?hpid=z1

On Saturday’s
edition (http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/?videoDate=20120121)
of “Up With Chris Hayes,” Gary Johnson brought up an old
Newt Gingrich (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-south-carolina-a-sharply-tightened-race/2012/01/21/gIQAS6JIGQ_story.html)
idea I hadn’t heard before: Putting individuals who brought more than two ounces of marijuana into the United States to death. That sounded extreme, even for Gingrich. So I looked it up. And sure enough, there it is: “
The Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996. (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h104-4170&tab=summary)
” What makes the bill even more amazing is that Gingrich himself is a confessed pot smoker. When he was young, he said, experimenting with drugs “was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era.”

Tell everybody! This is a bad guy


I don't think this implies that Newt wants death for pot smokers. Even if he wanted it, he couldn't do it because of our current laws regarding medical marijuana. Funny stuff.

I grow my own and use it legally here. I'm voting for Newt.

I'm sure it'll gin up a little hysteria with the moonbat crowd.