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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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1 posted on 02/10/2022 10:44:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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Ah, so it’s more than $30 million they’re spending.
2 posted on 02/10/2022 10:49:52 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

for some reason, its more believable that they ARE in fact spending my tax dollars on this, than it is believable that they ARE NOT.


3 posted on 02/10/2022 10:50:10 AM PST by NicoDon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, crack pipes are indeed part of the “kits” that they are giving addicts. It’s not ALL that is in the kits... But they are there.

It’s a lie to say they aren’t.


4 posted on 02/10/2022 10:50:32 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yup it’s for governmental use only.


5 posted on 02/10/2022 10:51:10 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Olog-hai
You're 48-hours late, Washington Post.

The story is out there and circulating the globe.

6 posted on 02/10/2022 10:52:03 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Once again treating the symptoms not stemming the source flowing across the southern boarder
7 posted on 02/10/2022 10:52:44 AM PST by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial........)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not after getting caught.


8 posted on 02/10/2022 10:53:14 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They aren’t only because they got caught before they did.


9 posted on 02/10/2022 10:53:17 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: JonPreston

Never mind the Compost’s headline focusing on what was spent on them since they can’t deny the crack pipes are in there.


10 posted on 02/10/2022 10:53:18 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Dead Corpse
They aren't distributing crack pipes, they're distributing smoking kits that happen to contain pipes (which might be useful for smoking crack).

But they're not distributing crack pipes.

11 posted on 02/10/2022 10:53:53 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Dead Corpse

As usual the lie is through saying something technically true but which is misleading.

They aren’t spending, as you said, it all on crack pipes … but a crack pipe is gonna be in every kit.


12 posted on 02/10/2022 10:53:53 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So’ maybe only $10 million of it is crack pipes then?


13 posted on 02/10/2022 10:54:20 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is another money making scam for “non profits”—with political connections perhaps...


14 posted on 02/10/2022 10:54:58 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘The compost doth protest too much, methinks,’


15 posted on 02/10/2022 10:55:23 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The people who broke this story are a lot more reliable sources of information then the habitually lying propaganda whores in Corporate Media.


16 posted on 02/10/2022 10:55:53 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So, what the newspuppets at The Bezos Blog are saying is that the federal government is spending $30 million on 'crack pipes'.

Remember, Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro of The Brandonton Pest had NO IDEA that Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust had an open affair until Zucker told his "news" colleagues about it a week ago.

Just like NO ONE knew that Michael "Spikey" Isikoff was holding back a scoop on Rapin Bill Clintoon and Monica Lewinsky.

17 posted on 02/10/2022 10:56:00 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are ballot harvesting fortification booster kits.


18 posted on 02/10/2022 10:56:07 AM PST by blackdog (# We Are Corn-Pop, turn off the news.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Makes you wonder what this fiasco was designed to distract us form.


19 posted on 02/10/2022 10:57:15 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If governments hadn’t already spent millions for clean needles to pass out to junkies, I could believe they wouldn’t pass out free crack pipes but since they were foolish before, it’s not difficult to believe they could be foolish again.


20 posted on 02/10/2022 10:58:03 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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