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

[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.

[Olog-hai]

Ah, so it’s more than $30 million they’re spending.

[NicoDon]

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.

[Dead Corpse]

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.

[Jim Robinson]

Yup it’s for governmental use only.

[JonPreston]

You're 48-hours late, Washington Post.

The story is out there and circulating the globe.

[justrepublican]

Once again treating the symptoms not stemming the source flowing across the southern boarder

[EQAndyBuzz]

Not after getting caught.

[Sequoyah101]

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

[Olog-hai]

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

[skeeter]

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.

[Rurudyne]

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.

[bigbob]

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

[cgbg]

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

[Skwor]

‘The compost doth protest too much, methinks,’

[MNJohnnie]

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

[kiryandil]

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.

[blackdog]

They are ballot harvesting fortification booster kits.

[mountainlion]

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

[OrangeHoof]

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.