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Newt Gingrich on Drugs
Former Republican Representative (GA-6) and Speaker of the House
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Marijuana legalization would tear America apart
Gingrich now says that pot legalization would tear America apart: "Every place drugs are legalized the net effect is more people on welfare, more people who are dependent, more people with bad health care outcomes, fewer people who are able
workers able to pay attention on the job and a drain of money into illegality, because immediately behind legalized marijuana comes cocaine and heroin."
Source: Tim Murphy in Mother Jones magazine
, Apr 20, 2011
International drug traders use network for terrorist traffic
The tragedy of Sept. 11 has revealed that gangs are also a threat to our domestic security. The deep infiltration of gangs in our society is extremely attractive to terrorist organizations. We must listen to the warnings of Former Speaker of the US
House of Representatives Newt Gingrich: "Fueled by the global nature of the drug trade, gangs are increasingly international operations. With the infrastructure in place to move and distribute Drugsacross the border, the danger exists that they will
use their network to, for the right price, traffic terrorists and weapons into the country."Florida should increase funding for additional law enforcement resources to combat gang activities.
Florida should pattern its gang elimination program after the successful Gang Resistance Education And Training (GREAT) program. GREAT is a curriculum-based program aimed at teaching students skills to help them avoid gangs, violence, and drugs.
Source: 100 Innovative Ideas, by Marco Rubio, p. 71-72
, Nov 1, 2006
Increase penalties for illegal drugs
Indicate which principles you support concerning illegal drugs. - Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
- Impose mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
- Impose capital punishment for convicted international drug
traffickers.
- Strengthen current laws dealing with non-controlled substances.
- Other: “Overhaul Border Patrol, INS, U.S. Customs, & DEA handling of drugs. Use National Guard & triple fencing to seal off the border.”
Source: Congressional 1998 National Political Awareness Test
, Nov 1, 1998
Drug-free society focuses on both drug supply & demand
It is essential that we find the means to create a drug-free society for our children. As everyone knows, this has not been an easy matter for us. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, with its constant efforts at persuasion & education, and Nancy
Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign had a real effect on drug use between 1984 and 1992. In fact, drug use declined by 2/3 in 8 years. Drug use began to rise again when the educational ad campaigns were dumped by the Clinton Administration. Now we have to
launch a full-scale torrent of antidrug education, in schools, in churches, in youth organizations, in after-school programs, and everywhere else that young people hang out.
We must also raise the cost of buying and using drugs. We must find a number
of economic and social penalties--not just the threat of prison which we know does not work--that will make drug use socially unacceptable. We must seal off the American border by combining [various agencies] into one focused border agency.
Source: Lessons Learned the Hard Way, by Newt Gingrich, p.204-205
, Jul 2, 1998
Admitted to smoking marijuana, coming of age in 1960s
It has been popular to conjure up in just how many ways Newt Gingrich is like Bill Clinton. Superficially they share much. Both came of age around the same time--the '60s, the Vietnam era.
Each owns a vintage '60s Mustang. Each admitted to smoking marijuana and neither served in the military. Each is an indefatigable politician who has come back from crushing defeat.
Source: Newt!, by Dick Williams, p. 19
, Jun 1, 1995
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