Despite having confessed to smoking cannabis in college and stating that when he was young experimenting with drugs “was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era” Newt Grinach proposed a bill that would putting anyone caught bringing more than two ounces of cannabis into the United States to death.

Whilst this might sound pretty extreme it’s 100% true and you can even see the 1996 bill proposed by Grinich right here.

So how does a man that has confessed to smoking pot in college explain such hypocricy?

Well here’s the kicker, his official statement was:

“See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral,” Gingrich reportedly told Wall Street Journal reporter Hilary Stout in 1996. “Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn’t change, only the morality… That’s why you get to go to jail and I don’t.”

Sorry, what!?

Whilst cannabis remains an illegal substance prescription drugs are on the rise with a staggering 1 in 2 Americans now on them. Studies show that 85% of new prescription drugs that are hitting the market provide little to no benefit to patients and further research shows that prescription drugs only work for 30% of patients for which they’re intended.

The info graphic below details even more of these scary statistics about prescription drugs that the big drug companies do NOT want you to know:

This graphic was created by Medical Billing and Coding Online