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Monday, January 23, 2012

What Are Newt Gingrich’s Big Ideas?

Gingrich once proposed a law that would put anyone caught with more than two ounces of pot to death. 


On Saturday’s edition of “Up With Chris Hayes,” Gary Johnson brought up an old Newt Gingrich 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.” 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.”


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good idea , however , this country seems to have a problem with giving out death penalties. Certainly would stop some of these drug smugglers.