Newt Wanted To Execute Pot Importers-“The Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.” [View all]

[kpete]

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.”
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.”


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-are-newt-gingrichs-big-ideas/2011/08/25/gIQApk8pIQ_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/newt-gingrich-wanted-to-kill-pot-smokers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29