Newt Gingrich Gingrich: Founding fathers would have 'violent' reaction to pot growers

[farreri]

So Mr. Gingrich, the Founding Fathers would have committed violence against themselves?!

Gingrich: Founding fathers would have ‘violent’ reaction to pot growers

Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the founders of the United States would have dealt violently with marijuana growers, despite the fact that they grew the plant for commercial purposes themselves.

He said at an town hall event in New Hampshire that decriminalizing drugs like marijuana would increase the rate of addictions and increase crime.

“In general, I’d like us to be as drug free as possible and I think that it requires a much more serious approach.”

Gingrich was later asked if former Presidents Thomas Jefferson or George Washington should have been arrested for growing marijuana.

“I think Jefferson or George Washington would have rather strongly discouraged you from growing marijuana and their techniques with dealing with it would have been rather more violent than our current government,” he responded.

Both Washington and Jefferson grew marijuana on their Virginia farms. At the time, the plant was used to make a number a products, such as rope and textiles. It did not become a widely-used recreational drug in the United States until the 20th century, but some academics have claimed that at least seven early U.S. presidents used the drug in the form of hashish.

Gingrich has previously called for a more aggressive drug policy, including the death penalty for drug smugglers.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/...s-would-have-violent-reaction-to-pot-growers/

And you call yourself a historian. Pffft.

Newt needs to smoke a joint and chill out.

 

[Kords21]

Who knows, it was probably from smoking the stuff that they got their wisdom. Newt's full of it and the more negative he goes, the lower his poll numbers are going to go. He's more interested in politically killing Romney and to a lesser extent Paul. I think he'll become so Toxic that some party elders (whoever that might be) will have to force Newt off the scene.

 

[farreri]

Some NeoCon's brains just go out the window when it comes to drugs. (I'm sure I can make a joke out of that. )

Newty wants to do a "a much more serious approach" combating drugs. I guess a trillion dollars spent, civil liberties trampled, highest per capita of people in prisons, millions of families wrecked, thousands accidentally killed from botched raids, all the while making the drug lords billionaires wasn't enough,

Mexico followed Newt's advice a couple years ago and since then 40,000 Mexican people murdered cause of it.

Yeah Newt, let's INCREASE the drug war! Alcohol Prohibition worked so great, Mr. "Historian."

 

[Dr.3D]

Some NeoCon's brains just go out the window when it comes to drugs. (I'm sure I can make a joke out of that. )

Newty wants to do a "a much more serious approach" combating drugs. I guess a trillion dollars spent, civil liberties trampled, highest per capita of people in prisons, millions of families wrecked, thousands accidentally killed from botched raids, all the while making the drug lords billionaires wasn't enough,

Mexico followed Newt's advice a couple years ago and since then 40,000 Mexican people murdered cause of it.

Yeah Newt, let's INCREASE the drug war! Alcohol Prohibition worked so great, Mr. "Historian."

Really! In order to get more serious, they will have to put a cop in every home full time.

 

[tttppp]

Actually, making pot illegal creates a black market and thus more crime. Everyone knows that. I can't believe Gingrich expects everyone to believe that crap that making pot legal creates more crime.

 

[farreri]

And it's going to make everyone turn into Zombies!