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Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 10:28 AM Jun 2012

Ol' Newt must be high or something...

Newt Gingrich’s PRO-medical marijuana letter to the editor, 1982

Well, well, well… Look who was PRO-medical marijuana—actually went out on a limb for it—way back before he wanted to behead people and cut off their hands for possessing it…

...What’s more, when challenged about his own admitted use of marijuana in the past, Gingrich had this to say to Wall Street Journal reporter Hilary Stout:

“That was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era. See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn’t change, only the morality… That’s why you get to go to jail and I don’t.”
“Okay for thee, but not for me,” sez rich, well-fed white guy. Thanks for the succinct explanation, mean old man!

Now, if you’re looking to make sense of this stuff don’t even try. He’s a Republican, ‘nuff said.

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/newt_gingrichs_pro_medical_marijuana_letter_to_the_editor_1982

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Ol' Newt must be high or something... (Original Post) Blue_Tires Jun 2012 OP
He makes me sick. trusty elf Jun 2012 #1
Newt: "See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral." yellowcanine Jun 2012 #2

yellowcanine

(36,828 posts)
2. Newt: "See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral."
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 12:06 PM
Jun 2012

Okay then. Makes sense to me. If Newt says so it must be true.

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