Biden funds crack pipes distribution to advance racial equity

[marvin martian]

Free crack pipes for everyone!

Senator Kennedy comments this morning Biden Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’ $30 million program will provide ‘smoking kits’ to vulnerable …

citizenfreepress.com

killing blacks??

Remember in the 90s when black community leaders accused the government of being behind the crack epidemic plaguing their neighborhoods? Joe Biden was a senator then.

 

[skye]

Map break.

 

[surada]

Free crack pipes for everyone!

Senator Kennedy comments this morning Biden Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’ $30 million program will provide ‘smoking kits’ to vulnerable …

citizenfreepress.com

killing blacks??

You're just promoting lies again.

 

[Calypso Jones]

LOLOL

 

[LOIE]

This harm reduction program is about a lot more than handing out crack pipes. Don't let some dipshit hack partisan fuckwits do your thinking for you with trigger words.

The War On Drugs™ has been a catastrophic failure. It is stupid to continue to push policies which don't work.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result."

It is time to do something different. Harm reduction programs are something different.

Let's give them a chance and see if they work better than the total failures we have implemented up to now.

Rather than read some biased shit from a hack partisan website, read the harm reduction program source: https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/grants/pdf/fy22-harm-reduction-nofo.pdf

Thank you. Very helpful for understanding. Like you say, the proper source for information is very important to understanding.

 

[IM2]

Free crack pipes for everyone!

Senator Kennedy comments this morning Biden Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’ $30 million program will provide ‘smoking kits’ to vulnerable …

citizenfreepress.com

killing blacks??

This is fake news.

 

[IM2]

Don't read that hack partisan website, read this hack partisan website.

There is no such thing as harm reduction in assisting or encouraging drug use.

You dumb ass old hag, g5000 posted the harm reduction program proposal.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

You dumb ass old hag, g5000 posted the harm reduction program proposal.

Spoken like a true Stepnfetchit. You make Nazis proud.

 

[IM2]

Spoken like a true Stepnfetchit. You make Nazis proud.

The only stepnfechit here is you. Now go step n fetch them mashed potatoes.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The only stepnfechit here is you. Now go step n fetch them mashed potatoes.

Your brain is mashed potatoes. Typical of black bucks. Can't think, you need a black doe with a big ass to think for you. Bucks and Does. That's what you are.

 

[Calypso Jones]

The crack pipes story was there in black and white.

The $30 million grant program, which closed applications Monday and will begin in May, will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts. Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for "smoking kits/supplies." A spokesman for the agency told the Washington Free Beacon that these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and "any illicit substance."

 

[LOIE]

Keep in mind it was CIA who introduced, and then taught urban blacks how to make the little crack rocks out of coca paste

I hadn't thought about this for years, but yes, the CIA did admit to knowing that the Contras were selling drugs in the inner cities to fund their U.S. backed war in Nicaragua. They admitted to doing nothing to stop it and to shielding them from prosecution.

I don't think people realize what a devastating effect this had on the inner cities.

The San Jose Mercury News series documents just one thread of the interwoven operations linking the CIA, the contras, and the cocaine cartels. Obsessed with overthrowing the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, Reagan administration officials tolerated drug trafficking as long as the traffickers gave support to the contras. In 1989, the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations (the Kerry committee) concluded a three-year investigation by stating: “There was substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zones on the part of individual contras, contra suppliers, contra pilots, mercenaries who worked with the contras, and contra supporters throughout the region. . . . U.S. officials involved in Central America failed to address the drug issue for fear of jeopardizing the war efforts against Nicaragua. . . . In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter. . . . Senior U.S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the contras’ funding problems.”

 

[LOIE]

It’s based off what Democrats are doing already at the state level. Not enforcing drug laws, paying for drug houses under the guise of it being for “safety” to reduce overdoses. When in fact all it does is make drug use skyrocket in these Dem run shitholes.

You’ve gotta give those White Democrats credit, they sure know how to not only keep the black man down, but make them love you while you do it. Us stupid Republicans would rather see blacks stop using drugs and committing so many crimes, start businesses, pay taxes, and be good citizens. But that makes us “racist” because evidently blacks are incapable of living like civilized white people. Instead we need to follow the Democrats lead and accept that doing drugs is just “their culture” and help them get high.

Wouldn’t Superbadbrutha and IM2 agree?

NYTimes:
"HIPS, a harm reduction organization in Washington that applied for a grant under the administration’s program, distributed smoking kits in the 1990s and 2000s. Replacing broken and unsafe glass pipes had the effect of reducing the sharing of equipment and transmittable disease, said the group’s executive director, Cyndee Clay.
“Being able to offer people clean, safe equipment for use, it’s a first step in helping change their behavior,” she said, adding that when HIPS stopped distributing the kits, “our engagement lessened because we didn’t have the right materials to start that conversation.”

Ms. Clay said of the grant program, “It’s unfortunate that there is all this controversy over what is essentially a very small part of what this initiative will be able to accomplish.”

Personally, I believe that if this had all taken place under the previous administration, they would be getting high praise for finally doing something about the opioid epidemic and the number of overdoses we are seeing. But because the term "crack" is generally associated with black inner cities, this is all that is talked about and just became something to blame democrats for.

 

[IM2]

Your brain is mashed potatoes. Typical of black bucks. Can't think, you need a black doe with a big ass to think for you. Bucks and Does. That's what you are.

You apparently fantasize about a big black dick. Go put some butter on those biscuits.

 

[IM2]

Remember in the 90s when black community leaders accused the government of being behind the crack epidemic plaguing their neighborhoods? Joe Biden was a senator then.

That happened in the 80's.

Reagan/Bush.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

You apparently fantasize about a big black dick. Go put some butter on those biscuits.

It's how the old slave breeders referred to their livestock. They kept very careful records for their livestock. Maybe the women weren't referred to as does. Maybe it was sows.

 

[BackAgain]

This is fake news.

No it isn’t. The Brandon Administration is just backpedaling like motherfuckers.

 

[BackAgain]

Just to annoy lil’ im.2, let’s set the record straight:

“To limit infections among drug users, the Biden administration created a $30 million grant program through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for non-profits to buy “equipment and supplies to enhance harm reduction efforts,” examples of which list infectious disease testing kits, condoms, syringes and “safe smoking kit/supplies.” “ — Biden admin denies program for drug addicts includes free crack pipes

In that article, the hyperlink “example of which” goes to https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/grants/pdf/fy22-harm-reduction-nofo.pdf

At page 10 thereof, you can see for yourself that the reporter didn’t file an erroneous report. It was properly sourced with a Department of Health publication on the legislation. That notice of funding opportunity document premised on the Act included:

“ 6. DATA COLLECTION/PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND PROJECT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
Data Collection/Performance Measurement
All SAMHSA recipients are required to collect and report certain data so that SAMHSA can meet its obligations under the Government Performance and Results (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010. You must document your plan for data collection and reporting in your Project Narrative in response to Section D: Data Collection and Performance Measurement in Section V of this NOFO.
Recipients will be required to report on the following indicators on a quarterly basis via SAMHSA’s Performance Accountability and Reporting System (SPARS):
• Number of individual referrals to support services.
• Number of individual linkages to support services. For the purposes of this
indicator, “linkages” are defined as the number of engagements with any support service. Each linkage should be counted (i.e., one individual participant engaged with five individual support services should reflect five linkages).
• List and quantity of harm reduction materials purchased with grant funds including, but not limited to:
o Harm reduction vending machine(s), including stock for machines;
o Infectious diseases testing kits (HIV, HBV, HCV, etc.);
o Medication lock boxes;
o FDA-approved overdose reversal medication(as well as higher dosages
now approved by FDA);
o Safe sex kits, including PrEP resources and condoms;
o Safe smoking kits/supplies;
o Screening for infectious diseases (HIV, sexually transmitted infections,
viral hepatitis);
o Sharps disposal and medication disposal kits;
o Substance test kits, including test strips for fentanyl and other synthetic
drugs;
o Syringes to prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases; o Vaccination services (hepatitis A, hepatitis B vaccination); and
o Wound care management supplies.
• Evidence-based interventions or promising practices implemented at the community level.” Id at p. 10 [highlighting etc added].

 

[LOIE]

Safe smoking kits/supplies;

I think it's important to know what is in these kits and why and how they are used.
The Harm Reduction International Website says this:

"Safer smoking kits: The distribution of safer smoking kits (which can include glass stems, rubber mouthpieces, brass screens, lip balm and disinfectant wipes) aims to engage people who smoke drugs with harm reduction and health services and to reduce health complications caused by unsafe equipment. By using safer equipment, people who smoke drugs can avoid the emergence of lesions, burns and cuts to the lips and mouth that are associated with a risk of infection and hepatitis C transmission. It can also reduce the risk of lung issues associated with using improvised smoking equipment.:"

If you have a friend, family member or relative who is an addict, you would probably prefer them to go somewhere that provides a safe, controlled environment and offers health services. No, I do not think that addicts are allowed to walk into a facility, grab the kit and leave with it. No, I do not think that addicts are being encouraged to use. They are people with an illness, which if handled in a health care setting, and if they are dealt with as a human being, they may eventually be a recovering addict, not a dead one.

 

[BackAgain]

I think it's important to know what is in these kits and why and how they are used.
The Harm Reduction International Website says this:

"Safer smoking kits: The distribution of safer smoking kits (which can include glass stems, rubber mouthpieces, brass screens, lip balm and disinfectant wipes) aims to engage people who smoke drugs with harm reduction and health services and to reduce health complications caused by unsafe equipment. By using safer equipment, people who smoke drugs can avoid the emergence of lesions, burns and cuts to the lips and mouth that are associated with a risk of infection and hepatitis C transmission. It can also reduce the risk of lung issues associated with using improvised smoking equipment.:"

If you have a friend, family member or relative who is an addict, you would probably prefer them to go somewhere that provides a safe, controlled environment and offers health services. No, I do not think that addicts are allowed to walk into a facility, grab the kit and leave with it. No, I do not think that addicts are being encouraged to use. They are people with an illness, which if handled in a health care setting, and if they are dealt with as a human being, they may eventually be a recovering addict, not a dead one.

Ok. I don’t think I buy the rationale. I think it’s actually stupid. Not “counter-intuitive” or whatever label the politicians might want to put on it. That said, the big point remains:

That was one of the purposes of the Act. By denying as much, and accusing the accurate report by the reporter of being “inaccurate,” the Brandon Administration lied.