NO, Newt...the "founding fathers" were probably rolling spliffs and livelying up themselves.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Clueless effin' tool.

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

By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/04/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.

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1. Gingrish is a historian? What a laugh-and-a-half.

Hemp was probably the 2nd biggest cash crop in the former colonies, next to tobacco. And it was, and still is, a multi-purpose plant, to boot. (food, textiles, rope, etc.)

[limpyhobbler]

2. george washington smoked weed

[Electric Monk]

3. "Don't grow marijuana. Buy ours instead." ? nt

[pangaia]

4. To say nothing about-

snorting a little snuff... snort, snort, snort...

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5. Hey Newt Can you explain the violence in these?

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President quote on Hemp

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
- George Washington, U.S. President quote on Hemp

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6. NEWT has ADMITTED he smoked marijuana himself!

From Reason magazine, in 1995 --

"Gingrich had this to say about his illegal drug use: "That was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era." Somehow, an activity that was no big deal in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s had become shameful and scandalous by the late ‘80s.

Although Gingrich excuses his illegal drug use by implying that most of his fellow students also smoked pot, marijuana use was probably less common when he was in graduate school than it was in 1988. The government's survey data don't go back to 1971, when Gingrich got his Ph.D. But the survey shows a steady rise in drug use from 1974 until 1979. Although reported drug use declined after that, in 1988 it was still considerably higher than in 1974."

http://reason.com/archives/1995/05/01/drugs-and-deviance

More recently recalled in Mediaite just last month:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gary-johnson-newt-gingrich-supported-death-penalty-for-marijuana-even-though-he-smokes-marijuana/

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7. Decriminalization didn't increase week use in next door Massachusetts. nt