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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken --- Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery blames marijuana for spike in heroin deaths "every single one of them, when they were discussing their own addiction or someone else's, referenced beginning with marijuana use."Using that logic you could say using mother's milk leads not only to marijuana use, but to heroin addiction. Hell, same goes for H2O or water. I have never met a marijuana user or heroin addict who didn't at some time in his or her life down a few swigs of water. Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery real problem is he doesn't want legalize marijuana to cut into his "War on Drugs" which is a jobs program for cops, prosecutors, judges, prison guards and probation officers. The "War on Drugs" is also a government welfare program for police departments. Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery doesn't want to lose the millions, if not billions of dollars of cold hard cash that is given to him to throw people in prison who commit victimless drug war crime. Wake up folks, the "War on Drugs" isn't about protecting us from anything. The "War on Drugs" is about shoveling money into the pockets of cops, prosecutors, judges, prison guards, and probation officers.
Maricopa Co. attorney blames marijuana for spike in heroin deaths Posted: Apr 13, 2016 8:05 PM Updated: Apr 13, 2016 11:07 PM By Dennis Welch Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is warning of a spike in deadly heroin overdoses across the Valley and blaming marijuana use for contributing to the problem. During a Wednesday morning news conference, the county's top prosecutor laid out the evidence for his accusations. He said there were 101 deaths in Maricopa County related to heroin overdoses in 2014, up from 56 in 2013. He then played a video for the media showing a number of recovering addicts sharing their stories about addition. Following the presentation, he said of the people featured in it, "every single one of them, when they were discussing their own addiction or someone else's, referenced beginning with marijuana use." The timing of the Montgomery's comments comes one day after a campaign to legalize marijuana for recreational use announced it has gathered more than 200,000 petition signatures to put the issue on the November ballot. The number is well above the requirement to qualify for the fall ballot. To say Montgomery is an opponent of legalization would be an understatement. His assertion that marijuana is a gateway drug contributing to heroin use has been questioned. Last month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study showing heroin-related deaths tripled between 2010 and 2014. “Among new heroin users, approximately three out of four report abusing prescription opioids prior to using heroin,” the report said.
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