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Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’
Washington Free Beacon ^

Posted on 02/07/2022 7:31:54 AM PST by TigerClaws

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.

"If we look at more of a preventive campaign as opposed to an enabling campaign, I think it will offer an opportunity to have safer communities with fewer people who are dependable on these substances," Boatwright told the Free Beacon.

Other "harm reduction" equipment that qualifies for funding include syringes, vaccinations, disease screenings, condoms, and fentanyl strips. The grant program will last three years and includes 25 awards of up to $400,000.

An HHS spokesman declined to specify what is included in the smoking kits. Similar distribution efforts provide mouthpieces to prevent glass cuts, rubber bands to prevent burns, and filters to minimize the risk of disease.

It is against federal law to distribute or sell drug paraphernalia unless authorized by the government.

President Biden's son Hunter is a longtime user of crack cocaine.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; cornpop; crackpipe; crackpipes; drugdealer; drugs; equity; narcoterrorism; racialequity; racism; woke; wtf
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To: Sacajaweau

Clean needles is different from handing out smoking supplies. Clean needles arguably helps control pathogens in a high risk population


61 posted on 02/07/2022 9:15:06 AM PST by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” - The Taliban)
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To: TigerClaws

500 million crack pipes from China?

Ji smiles...


62 posted on 02/07/2022 9:29:24 AM PST by moovova
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To: Responsibility2nd

That’s the first place to look but sadly, this isn’t Babylon Bee...but it IS Becerra’s department so who can be surprised?

There isn’t a single democrat in that administration who has an ounce of shame/embarrassment to come up with such an idiotic idea. I guess the idea is to make the president’s son safer from his own drug habit. How about the president’s drug habits? This can’t be happening!!!!!


63 posted on 02/07/2022 9:41:27 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: PMAS

No he’s the technical adviser of this program.


64 posted on 02/07/2022 10:29:52 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

OMG I thought for sure this would be the Bee, but not surprised it isn’t!!!


65 posted on 02/07/2022 10:33:21 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: TigerClaws
Meanwhile, the government is going after people who try to obtain Ivermectin, is intercepting Ivermectin in the mail, and throwing the border wide open to drug trafficking.

Everything this administration does is a finger in the face of normal citizens and especially conservatives and Christians.
66 posted on 02/07/2022 12:45:49 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: TigerClaws
"I think it will offer an opportunity to have safer communities with fewer people who are dependable on these substances."

How is facilitating a drug habit going to encourage people to quit the habit? These people are either psychotic or demonic.
67 posted on 02/07/2022 12:48:15 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Responsibility2nd

To Bee or not to Bee.

With today’s news always the question...


68 posted on 02/07/2022 1:11:17 PM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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To: TigerClaws

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.”

Hunter Biden approved!


69 posted on 02/07/2022 1:11:25 PM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

What’s that I hear? Sounds like the faint sound of approaching truck horns...


70 posted on 02/07/2022 1:12:40 PM PST by quikstrike98
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To: Living Free in NH

Welcome to The Twilight Zone.... We are so screwed.


71 posted on 02/07/2022 1:13:04 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta is now a Dictatorship, there are no more “laws..”)
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To: TigerClaws

No doubt inspired by Joe’s crackhead son, Hunter.


72 posted on 02/07/2022 1:14:47 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It is heretofore now listed as “smoking supplies...”


73 posted on 02/07/2022 1:15:00 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta is now a Dictatorship, there are no more “laws..”)
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

“If not, Thanos...we need you. Its time.”

I wonder if that “half” was random.


74 posted on 02/07/2022 1:30:07 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Biden, as I have said before, can’t pick his nose without staff. Thia is all part of the JihadJunta destroying America and Western Civilization.


75 posted on 02/07/2022 1:31:10 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta is now a Dictatorship, there are no more “laws..”)
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To: TigerClaws
"...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..."

Honestly. It did say that, right?

76 posted on 02/07/2022 1:31:24 PM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: usconservative

I wonder if this will be means tested. Will Hunter get a free one? Probably…


77 posted on 02/07/2022 1:32:26 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: TigerClaws

Did Hunter write this legislation?


78 posted on 02/07/2022 1:40:52 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: TigerClaws

Biden ok with killing certain people.


79 posted on 02/07/2022 1:41:56 PM PST by Trillian
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To: TigerClaws
Got any more of those government crack pipes?


80 posted on 02/07/2022 1:43:00 PM PST by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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