WFB: Crack pipes are distributed in safe-smoking kits up and down the East Coast, raising questions about the Biden administration’s assertion that its multimillion-dollar harm reduction grant program wouldn’t funnel taxpayer dollars to drug paraphernalia.
The findings are the result of Washington Free Beacon visits to five harm-reduction organizations and calls to over two dozen more. In fact, every organization we visited—facilities in Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Richmond, Va.—included crack pipes in the kits.
The kits became the subject of national attention in the wake of a Free Beacon report in February indicating that a $30 million harm-reduction program was set to fund the distribution of free crack pipes in “safe-smoking kits.” Pressed on the matter in a Feb. 9 press briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a full-throated denial.
“They were never a part of the kit, it was inaccurate reporting,” Psaki said of the pipes. “A safe smoking kit may contain alcohol swabs, lip balm, other materials to promote hygiene and reduce the transmission of diseases.”
While the contents of safe-smoking kits vary from one organization to another—and while those from some organizations may not contain crack pipes—all of the organizations we visited made crack pipes as well as paraphernalia for the use of heroin, cocaine, and crystal methamphetamine readily available without requiring or offering rehabilitation services, suggesting that pipes are included in many if not most of the kits distributed across the country. All of the centers we visited are run by health-focused nonprofits and government agencies—the types of groups eligible to receive funding, starting this month, from the Biden administration’s $30 million grant program.
None of the organizations responded to inquiries about whether they applied for government grants. It is not clear which organizations will receive those grants, nor has the administration said how it will ensure the kits will not contain crack pipes. The Department of Health and Human Services, which will oversee the Biden grant program, declined to provide a list of groups that have applied for funding, citing “confidentiality.” The Biden administration is set to announce grant recipients on May 15. more
Good God.
WTF is WRONG with these people? Providing syringes of different gauges for injecting “in different parts of the body”, RECOMMENDING plunging Meth up your ass, giving instructions on assembling your crack pipe, not offering ANY counseling, no ill word, and not even something that might ACTUALLY “reduce harm” like Narcan…this is SOME kind of messed up.
I was struck particularly by this one…
“…Richmond, Va. This reporter asked for two crack smoking kits, but was told only one remained in the day’s offerings. To make up for the shortcoming, the employees added a meth pipe along with two “snorting kits,” which include straws, a plastic razor blade to break up drugs, short plastic straws, a small spoon, and a bedazzled playing card to snort drugs off of.”
…setting aside that they needed a SHINY playing card to snort from, you’re going to give people doing drugs who may be suicidal and/or homicidal A FRICKING RAZOR BLADE?!?!?
Wow.
Just…wow.
Can’t decide if they are truly that ignorant, or just hoping they’ll kill themselves and each other.
..but I’m sure the Chore Boy folks and the Pyrex folks appreciate the shout-out for their brands.
Question:
Does the “harm reduction center” incur ANY liability for instructing people to use cleaning products and lab equipment in a manner the manufacturer does NOT intend? Are we SURE the Chore Boy cleaning pad, which was NOT made for flame heated crack rock, won’t break down and pass itself or the molten drug to its user? And what if the Pyrex shatters under the uneven heating and careless handling and general lack of cleaning? Any liability THERE?
Geez…
…and in all this, this is somehow supposed to “help” women and minorities NOT be “oppressed”? Helping folks be ACTUAL slaves to drugs is somehow keeping them from being hyperbolically slaves to Whie Men who aren’t even around any more.
…GAAH!
…and such wonderful drug testing advice.
“smoke only a little bit first if unsure about its purity.”
…yeeah, so maybe you’ll only die SOME from the masive overdose of Fentanyl some skeevy pusher gave you. What better way to test purity but in the lungs of people who, definitially, are going to be too stoned to worry about purity as soon as they inhale it? And telling people with demonstrable self-control issues to exercise self- control when pleasuring themselves with drugs?
Good luck with that.
Might as well suggest they get a drug “taster”, you know, someone they consider expedible to take the first hit, and if they don’t die immediately you grab the hot glass pipe out of their hands and get to crackin’…
That makes just as much sense.
…I gotta stop now. More can be said, but I’ve pretty much hit my limit on idiocity just reading this. Never mind if Pedo wants to help people die, why the HELL is ANYONE going ALONG with this?!?
…unless THIS is a “depopulation” move as well…
We are truly f****d SNS. The people propogating this are evil, truly.
A) They have upgrade their drug distribution network so well that people aren’t consuming it fast enough.
B) We don’t care how you die, by JAB or by drugs. Just die.
Not just the east coast, I’m sure they are available Dem cities. Available in Chitcago.
If safety is so important, why doesn’t the government supply the crack along with the kit? Where’s the FDA? They have time on their hands now, having shut down infant formula. Get busy guys and certify some safe crack.
I’ve lost track. How many reasons to impeach this entire fake Administration is that?!!!!!!
Just pm’d this to the facetard factholes!!!
“Hey shitheads – update your fucking “fact check!!!”
Is a hard hat, safety glasses, ear protection, green florescent clothes, steel toed shoes and a condom required to use these safe smoking kits?
I meant to add: Or are those safety measures only required for people that have to be drug tested in order to obtain a job?