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Posted on 07/07/2023 6:21:48 PM PDT by aimhigh
The Multnomah County Health Department will begin distributing tin foil and straws this month to fentanyl smokers at sites across Portland, WW has learned. The “smoking supplies,” which also include glass pipes for smoking meth and crack as well as “snorting kits,” are part of a national effort to minimize the health consequences of drug use. Smoking is considered by many health experts a safer way of consuming hard drugs than injection, and government officials are now seeking to encourage users who haven’t already switched to do so—and to make it safer for those who already have.
The Oregon Legislature just passed a bill decriminalizing the distribution of “drug paraphernalia” for harm reduction purposes, although it awaits Gov. Tina Kotek’s signature. There are similar programs in other states, including Washington and California. New York City recently installed a vending machine with smoking kits, including bubble pipes.
Yet the decision to distribute smoking supplies arrives as many officials and Portland residents are exhausted by open drug use on city streets. Fentanyl, which is most commonly smoked, is now the drug of choice, and it’s difficult to walk downtown without passing someone in a stoop with a torch and a piece of tinfoil.
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The more druggies on the street, the easier it is for the Dems to vote in their place.
Those left coast really love their citizens don’t they...
“The “smoking supplies,” which also include glass pipes for smoking meth and crack as well as “snorting kits,” are part of a national effort to minimize the health consequences of drug use.”
This definitely falls under the category of, “You can’t make this shit up!”
The Bee’s got some serious competition
Yep soma if remember correctly. It’s like we are living in world with the worst elements from Brave New World, 1984 and the French Revolution emerging all over the globe
After the first addict dies of an OD while using county supplied drug paraphernalia/supplies the county supervisors should be charged and/or sued civilly by their decedent’s family for aiding & abetting the death of the person.
https://www.grllaw.com/blog/what-is-aiding-and-abetting-a-drug-crime/
They are doing the same thing in NYC. I know someone who works in one of those places. He believes in what he is doing, that there is a health benefit that goes along with the easy-to-obtain drugs. Also it was the only job he could get.
At needle-exchange programs had a shot at reducing blood-borne diseases.
This is just pure idiocy.
At least...
Giving people tin foil. Can we make them into hats or anything we want?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7fchtEJpy8
SOYLENT GREEN is next,,,, Amigo.
“Recruit them and immediately OD ‘em.”
If you are talking about Multnomah County staff I heartily agree.
The gov’t are the drug dealers!
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The latest woke craze - normalize a problem and call for satisfying an obession or addiction as “affirming care”.
There was a time when excessive sympathy for folks with mental problems was correctly called “enabling” them, not helping them.
Portland residents who finally have had enough are finding out that NO ONE wants to buy their property & MOVE into Portland.
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