Biden administration to fund programs that hand out crack pipes to prevent infection and promote 'racial equity'

Daily Mail UK ^ | 2/7/22 | Morgan Phillips

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President Biden's Health and Human Services department is finalizing funding to dole out crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its Harm Reduction Plan. The $30 million grant program will begin doling out money in May to provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to make drug use safer and to advance racial equity. Included in the grant is money to purchase safe smoking kits/supplies. A spokesperson for HHS told the Washington Free Beacon that included in these kits could be pipes for users to smoke substances like crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, or any illicit substance. Handing out pipes is also intended to prompt users to smoke rather than inject themselves with some substances, like meth, as injection is far riskier. Applicants for the program get priority if they serve under served communities, such as African Americans or Native Americans, or LGBTQ people. The crack-cocaine epidemic starting in the 1980s disproportionately ravaged the black community. Other harm reduction supplies that could be purchased with the grant money include testing equipment for sexually transmitted diseases, overdose reversal medication, medication lock boxes, syringes and substance test kits. The grant program lasts 3 years and includes 25 awards of up to $400,000. It is against the law to sell or distribute drug paraphernalia - including such pipes - unless authorized by state, local or federal law.

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'Is this a cruel joke? Drug overdose deaths are at their highest recorded levels. The Biden administration should focus on stopping traffickers instead of creating more demand for their product,' Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote on Twitter of the Justice Department's consideration of the facilities.

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[sevinufnine]

May I inquire of just who of us is surprised by this type of insanity coming from a department lead by...this?

[EvilCapitalist]

This thread is better-off without pictures.

[AlbertWang]

Www.myfreecrackpipe.com

[lowbridge]

And to think Tommy Chong got busted for selling glass pipes.

Actor Tommy Chong gets nine months for selling pot pipes

https://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030912chong0912p5.asp

Tommy Chong wants a White House pardon for selling bongs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/17/tommy-chong-wants-a-white-house-pardon-for-selling-bongs/

[bert]

Inequality is the direct result of being un equal........ inferior

[ronniesgal]

The Hunter Biden Foundation??? Good grief!!

[sevinufnine]

Can’t disagree the photo is not the first thing one would like to view in the morning, but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand word. (Words we also don’t want to read or think this early in the day, lol.)

[sevinufnine]

If he was one of those within the “under served community” he would never have been charged.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Is Hunter one of the investors of the crack pipe factory?

[Shady]

Where is Black Lives Matter? (Because, clearly they don’t) Where is the NAACP? Where is Kamila the Hunny? Where is Hank Johnson? Where is Eric Adams (oh eating a nice slab of cod) where is Auntie Maxine? Where is the Squad, Oh where are the defenders of the minority? Sheesh.

[ClearCase_guy]

Their Harm Reduction Plan involves distributing crack pipes. You can’t make this stuff up.

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Some of the ornaments were silly and some were dangerous, like crack pipes hung on a string. We couldn't figure out what crack pipes had to do with Christmas no matter how hard we tried so we threw them back in the box. Some ornaments were constructed out of various drug paraphernalia, like syringes, heroin spoons or roach clips, which are colorful devices sometimes adorned with bird feathers and used to hold marijuana joints.

- Gary Aldrich describing staff decorating First Lady Hillary Clinton's White House Christmas Tree in "Unlimited Access."

[Nateman]

When I first heard of this I thought It was a Babylon Bee satire.

[sevinufnine]

Geez, guess the Clintons were simply ahead of the game where the idea is concerned.

[Liz]

P

[Vision]

Sounds like an idea a mentally ill transvestite would come up with.

[OKSooner]

All the black people I know smoke crack and meth too, sometimes both at the same time. They shoot heroin too.

America needs free heroin needles.

[Made In The USA]

I have to write a big check for taxes this year, and this is what I’m helping pay for.....