{"id":438,"date":"2011-12-01T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:18:11","slug":"nut-gingrich-on-the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/2011\/12\/01\/nut-gingrich-on-the-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nut&#8221; Gingrich on the War on Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While he admits to smoking pot in college, Newt Gingrich in an interview with Yahoo 2 days ago wants death penalty for Mexican drug dealers and mandatory testing for any kind of federal aid, including unemployment benefit. He would also crack down on medical MJ. <a title=\"Nut Gingrich on drugs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/teaparty\/153242\/newt_gingrich_on_the_drug_war:_execute_mexican_cartel_leaders_%28and_more_terribly_draconian_ideas%29\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full article<\/a>, just in case you had any doubt left on the mental sanity of &#8220;Nut&#8221; Gingrich, and just in case you were entertaining the idea of supporting him.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from <a title=\"World War-D\" href=\"http:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;World War-D&#8221;<\/a> dedicated to this dangerous nut:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Newt Gingrich deserves a special lifetime award for hypocrisy. He has repeatedly tried to push legislation requiring the death penalty for drug traffickers (which incidentally is prohibited under international law) and went as far as proclaiming \u201cI want a World War Two style victory plan \u2013 a decisive, all out cataclysmic effort to break the back of the drug culture.\u201d But he admitted to smoking pot in the 1970s because it \u201cwas a sign that we were alive and in graduate school in that era.\u201d \u201cSee, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn\u2019t change, only the morality. That\u2019s why you get to go to jail and I don\u2019t. Any questions?\u201d Yes, does he really believe his own bullshit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While he admits to smoking pot in college, Newt Gingrich in an interview with Yahoo 2 days ago wants death penalty for Mexican drug dealers and mandatory testing for any kind of federal aid, including unemployment benefit. He would also crack down on medical MJ. Click here for the full article, just in case you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/2011\/12\/01\/nut-gingrich-on-the-war-on-drugs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Nut&#8221; Gingrich on the War on Drugs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,53,56,59,32,23,18],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-controlled-legalization","tag-drug-cartels","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-war-on-drugs","tag-war-on-drugs-failure","tag-world-war-d"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/WWD-S-TL1.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}