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No, the federal government isn't spending $30 million on 'crack pipes'
The Washington Post via Yahoo ^ | February 9, 2022 | By Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro

Posted on 02/10/2022 10:44:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Conservative figures have launched an online furor this week, claiming that the government planned to spend $30 million on pipes for smoking crack cocaine.

The heightened concern came months after the Department of Health and Human Services announced a federal grant for local programs that provide myriad "harm reduction" tools, or services that minimize the risks associated with drug use. Republicans seized on "crack pipes," causing the phrase to trend on Twitter on Tuesday, the latest in continued resistance from the GOP against harm-reduction techniques at a time when people are dying of drug overdoses at record rates in the United States.

“It's really disappointing that Republicans are trying to win political points by putting lives at risk and creating misinformation about harm reduction," said Jamie Favaro, executive director of NEXT Distro, one of the groups that applied for the grants.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s only $29.85 million!


41 posted on 02/10/2022 12:00:44 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post.

Well, that's ok, you'll just speak FOR them, right WAPO?
42 posted on 02/10/2022 12:10:21 PM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are enablement kits to help crackheads smoke product and they have alcohol swabs because, of course, the responsible crackhead, when he is flying high or rolling on the sidewalk, will remember to swab his lips for his safety and the safety of others. What’s not to like about this do no harm gubmint program.lol


43 posted on 02/10/2022 12:20:53 PM PST by chuckee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
grant for local programs that provide myriad "harm reduction" tools, or services that minimize the risks associated with drug use,

Dopers are dumba$$es, not victims. They make a choice and die with it.

They certainly don't need public money to facilitate making bad decisions that have only one outcome.

Spend my tax dollars on productive people that make good personal decisions that promote the general welfare.

44 posted on 02/10/2022 12:28:48 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ok, meth pipes then.

( damn weasels)


45 posted on 02/10/2022 12:44:58 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Consider the source ... Amazon Compost. Like anyone outside of the DC beltway believes a word written there. I'll go along with that crack pipes can and will be part of some of those safe drug kits, whatever that means. Is that like a safe gun?

This is just an example of what happens when the federal government gets involved in things that are not part of it's constitutional mandates. They can't legislate every detail, so when it comes to the implementation of any law there is always "flexibility". Most government monies go to leftists, and those leftist take advantage of the "flexibility".

46 posted on 02/10/2022 12:49:41 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Two weeks to slow the spread of communism.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nope , it’s $50 million


47 posted on 02/10/2022 12:50:29 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s sad is, our tax dollars are being used to facilitate illegal drug use.
democrats don’t seem to understand the definition of the word
“illegal”.


48 posted on 02/10/2022 12:57:30 PM PST by SunTzuWu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK, so it’s only $10 million on crack pipes and $20 million on syringes and needles.


49 posted on 02/10/2022 12:58:59 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: justrepublican
the source flowing across the southern boarder

The source is demand by drug addicts.

50 posted on 02/10/2022 12:59:49 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Harm reduction” is one of those liberal initiatives which, if put to a vote, would never pass.


51 posted on 02/10/2022 1:00:31 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Jim Noble

Good news citizen, government only spending five million
on crack pipes!


52 posted on 02/10/2022 1:01:41 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Amazing, the mental contortions the author goes through to defend this.

They money WILL be used for pipes, rubber mouthpieces (which will, immediately be discarded), screens, syringes, nalaxone, condoms....

Want to stop the 100,000 opioid deaths per annum?

Seal the border and execute the traffickers, publicly.

With the open border, there are probably tons of fentanyl, cocaine and meth coming in every day.

Once someone is addicted to this crap, their life is,essentially, over.

The few that beat their addiction, struggle, daily, against relapse.

Every action and policy, by this illegitimate regime, has harmed, or will harm American citizens.

It can't be explained by incompetence.

It's on purpose; by design.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

53 posted on 02/10/2022 1:06:57 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re not supplying crackpipes... they’re suppling PARTS of crackpipes. The rubber mouthpieces, and brass screen filters to screen out garbage.


54 posted on 02/10/2022 1:08:26 PM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Federal grants are paid for with taxpayer money. You’ll have to try harder than that Joe. I might have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night.


55 posted on 02/10/2022 1:32:40 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Olog-hai

Since the news of it broke, and people noticed, they had to change it to $29,999,999.99. JUST so they could say “We’re not spending $30 million on crack pipes!”

Weasel words I tell ya!


56 posted on 02/10/2022 2:15:48 PM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What! No crack pipes! Just needles and syringes? Sounds racist to me.


57 posted on 02/10/2022 2:52:59 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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Biden is so “perfect” and has created a “perfect” govt.

Sniffle.

Another Biden administration perfection:
<><> tax grants up to $30 million
<><>sob..... tax dollars aimed at kits for “harm reduction” programs
<><>based on President Biden’s stated commitment to ....sob....”racial equity.”

The kits include
<><>500 preselected blank mail-in ballots...... and a sharpee
<><>along with a Crack pipe, pack of menthols,
<><> an empty EBT card which can be loaded with cash benefits
<><>after the 500 blank mail in ballots are filled out and dropped in a mailbox.
<><>Also included is contact for your local Soros DA
<><>to absolve you of all felonies and misdemeanors.


58 posted on 02/10/2022 4:06:12 PM PST by Liz ("Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Closer to sixty then.

Probably with free crack as well.

59 posted on 02/10/2022 4:18:26 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

60 posted on 02/10/2022 10:20:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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