Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution

[LincolnDuncan]

No doubt in sympathy for Hunter:


Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’
$30 million program will provide 'smoking kits' to vulnerable ommunities

Patrick Hauf • February 7, 2022 5:00 am

The Biden administration is set to fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its plan to advance "racial equity."

The $30 million grant program, which closed applications Monday and will begin in May, will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts. Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for "smoking kits/supplies." A spokesman for the agency told the Washington Free Beacon that these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and "any illicit substance."

HHS said the kits aim to reduce the risk of infection when smoking substances with glass pipes, which can lead to infections through cuts and sores. Applicants for the grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of "underserved communities," including African Americans and "LGBTQ+ persons," as established under President Joe Biden's executive order on "advancing racial equity."

Democratic-run cities such as San Francisco and Seattle have distributed smoking kits to residents. Some local governments, however, have in recent years backed away from their smoking kit programs over concerns they enable drug abuse. Louisville, Ky., for example, allowed convenience stores to sell smoking kits but later banned them. Legislators in Maryland ditched their distribution plan after facing backlash from local law enforcement and African-American leaders.

Sgt. Clyde Boatwright, president of the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police, said government resources are better spent on preventing drug abuse rather than making it safer.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-admini...k-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/

Did you get yours yet?

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Took the same stance on the matter, he who makes the claim must back it up.

Learn to read dipshit.

Proof was given, it was backed up.

Can you read, lil emo?

 

[Rightguide]

Prove your headline. Just admit that you messed up by taking a headline that fit your narrative and ran with a lie.

I answered you in the CRT thread when you brought it up there, but because you apparently didn't see it, here it is again:

I didn't write the story, stupid. I posted it. How did the article lie? How did I lie? Show me.

Here is a link to the Program grant, read it:

Department of Health and Human Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration
FY 2022 Harm Reduction Program Grant
(Short Title: Harm Reduction)

Go down to page 8 and check out the "Purchase equipment and supplies to enhance harm reduction efforts, such as" list and note the entry "Safe smoking kits/supplies"

https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/grants/pdf/fy22-harm-reduction-nofo.pdf

So what is are "Safe Smoking Kits/Supplies?

Here is an international standard recognition statement of what they contain:

Safer smoking kits
The distribution of safer smoking kits (which can include glass stems, rubber mouthpieces, brass screens, lip balm and disinfectant wipes) aims to engage people who smoke drugs withharm reduction and health services and to reduce health complications caused by unsafeequipment. By using safer equipment, people who smoke drugs can avoid the emergence of
lesions, burns and cuts to the lips and mouth that are associated with a risk of infection and hepatitis C transmission. It can also reduce the risk of lung issues associated with using improvised smoking equipment.

The use of improvised pipes made from plastic bottles or aluminium cans can lead to lung damage and the inhalation of carcinogenic fumes, and the practice of using a layer of cigarette ash to suspend the crack in improvised pipes is associated with emphysema. In some countries drug control regulations prevent the distribution of crack pipes. In these contexts, an alternative is to support street forms of glass-based improvised pipe and avoid the use of cigarette ash as a suspending agent.

Pipe distribution programmes can also encourage safer drug-taking practices. “Pin to pipe” programmes aim to encourage smoking rather than injection of substances, to avoid the greater risk of bloodborne virus transmission associated with injection. “Pin and pipe” programmes encourage people
to administer different substances through different routes, to avoid “snowballing” (simultaneous injection of heroin and stimulant, most commonly cocaine, crack or methamphetamine).

Examples of programmes include Karisma in Indonesia, who distribute lighters, foil and straws, and COUNTERfit in Canada, which distributed 67,500 Pyrex stems in 2017. Both programmes employ peer workers in their outreach and pipe distribution services.

https://www.hri.global/files/2019/04/28/harm-reduction-stimulants-coact.pdf

Here is a Tweet from Kassandra Frederique, director of the
@DrugPolicyOrg , issues a statement just now calling the Biden admin's decision to no longer allow funding for "putting pipes in safer smoking supplies" a "huge missed opportunity."
4:44 PM · Feb 9, 2022·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1491573663287685127?s=20&t=xqFFFZ_AG1OuCQCf0xS8Sg

Here is her statement in full:

https://i.imgur.com/Hur3Uzll.jpg

Here is a letter from Senator Thom Tillis on the subject of crack pipes in those smoking kits:

Letter from Senator Thom Tillis
https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2022/...to-fund-smoking-kits-and-safe-injection-sites

So, show me where the article lied and I lied by posting it.[/QUOTE]

 

[Rightguide]

That was done in posts #6 and 9.

See my post below.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

See my post below.

B...b...but...Samantha Bee!!

 

[Philthy_Phil]

https://i.redd.it/rr4h2ckcqki81.png

 

[YDB95]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...eres-how-such-claims-emerged/?sh=6a94a43b59a8

Nothing to the crack pipe claim whatsoever. It's simply a proposal to curtail the most dangerous aspects of drug use while the big picture remains helping people kick the habit. It would be nice if you could just snap your fingers and say "stop doing drugs", but that ain't the way it works. Or do you think drug addicts deserve to die of AIDS or hepatitis?

 

[pecksniff]

It would be nice if you could just snap your fingers and say "stop doing drugs", but that ain't the way it works.

It worked for Nancy Reagan, didn't it?

 

[Philthy_Phil]

This is your brain.

This is your brain on drugs.

 

[YDB95]

It worked for Nancy Reagan, didn't it?

The pathetic thing is, the deplorables probably believe it did.

 

[ll74]

This is such a dumb lie from the right.

They should add to the program that anytime a right wing dipshit complains about drug measures, that they have a crack pipe sent to them directly with Biden's face on it.

 

[pecksniff]

I keep checking my mailbox. No crack pipe.

 

[YDB95]

Maybe it'll come when your Obamaphone comes?

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Maybe it'll come when your Obamaphone comes?

Is that before or after Death Panels?

Both of which are hilarious. W is the one who started the free phone program and the G00P was far closer to implementing "death panels" than the Dems ever got.