Posted on 05/12/2022 12:20:32 PM PDT by grundle
Free Beacon Investigates: Five cities, five free crack pipes
Crack pipes are distributed in safe-smoking kits up and down the East Coast, raising questions about the Biden administration's assertion that its multimillion-dollar harm reduction grant program wouldn't funnel taxpayer dollars to drug paraphernalia.
The findings are the result of Washington Free Beacon visits to five harm-reduction organizations and calls to over two dozen more. In fact, every organization we visited—facilities in Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Richmond, Va.—included crack pipes in the kits.
The kits became the subject of national attention in the wake of a Free Beacon report in February indicating that a $30 million harm-reduction program was set to fund the distribution of free crack pipes in "safe-smoking kits." Pressed on the matter in a Feb. 9 press briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a full-throated denial.
"They were never a part of the kit, it was inaccurate reporting," Psaki said of the pipes. "A safe smoking kit may contain alcohol swabs, lip balm, other materials to promote hygiene and reduce the transmission of diseases."
While the contents of safe-smoking kits vary from one organization to another—and while those from some organizations may not contain crack pipes—all of the organizations we visited made crack pipes as well as paraphernalia for the use of heroin, cocaine, and crystal methamphetamine readily available without requiring or offering rehabilitation services, suggesting that pipes are included in many if not most of the kits distributed across the country. All of the centers we visited are run by health-focused nonprofits and government agencies—the types of groups eligible to receive funding, starting this month, from the Biden administration's $30 million grant program.
None of the organizations responded to inquiries about whether they applied for government grants. It is not clear which organizations will receive those grants, nor has the administration said how it will ensure the kits will not contain crack pipes. The Department of Health and Human Services, which will oversee the Biden grant program, declined to provide a list of groups that have applied for funding, citing "confidentiality." The Biden administration is set to announce grant recipients on May 15.
The Free Beacon‘s findings contradict claims from a raft of fact-checkers who, based on the White House’s ex-post-facto denial, deemed the Free Beacon‘s reporting false.
A USA Today headline asking, "What's inside a safe smoking kit?" answered: "No, it's not a crack pipe." The outlet based its fact-check solely on the administration's denial and does not appear to have done any additional research on safe smoking kits. The author, Michelle Shen, did not respond to a request for comment.
A survey of more than two dozen harm reduction organizations found that not all harm reduction organizations distribute safe smoking kits, but those that do almost always provide crack pipes. The few that don't include crack pipes in their kits say they are willing to, but unable to.
At Washington, D.C.'s Family and Medical Counseling Service, Inc., for example, a member of the group's needle exchange team told the Free Beacon that the organization would love to offer crack pipes as part of its safe smoking kit but hasn't been able to purchase them.
"I would if I knew how," said Tyrone Pinkney, who distributes clean needles from a recreational vehicle and said he did not know where to buy crack pipes to include in the kits.
Pinkney, however, appears to be an exception. Here is what the Free Beacon found in each city.
Is there anything our illegitimate government doesn’t lie about?
LOL. This is ridiculous even for the government. A safe smoking crack pipe?????? That’s like giving someone a “safe” Russian roulette gun.
Shouldn’t they include “samples” of the material, else how is a consumer to know which apparatus to use?
A votre sante!
Government sponsored drug pushers.
The kits may very well be a “safer” way to use drugs that would be used anyway... but the USA Today and White House need to be held accountable for misleading the public. Good journalism!
Here is a sobering look at the fentanyl problem.. compelling and sad watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTT8XJTl8I
Why didn’t they include a gun and a knife? Because they’re going to need crack money ya’ know?
Smoking cigarettes bad. Weed ok.
What? Biden lied? Not again.....
Much of our drug problems are caused by our wide open border with vast amounts of drugs being brought in in cooperation with the cartels; the same with sex slave and child smuggling.
They sent Chillums and Crack Pipes. Nice...
Most crackheads have click-bait blogs for that.
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This adds to my list of Democrats that want people dead. The most important crisis of our day ( to democrats), is climate change. There is too many people on the planet and they need a way to kill them without them getting blamed for their deaths.
How can I get one?
I want to forward it to Psaki’s home and pay someone to protest on her sidewalk about her lies.
Not to be a dummy, but how do crack pipes wear out, or pass disease?
I mean, except for the smoking crack part.
Is meningitis or an STD passed along that would shorten the life quality of a crack smoker?
What is used to smoke meth, or is that what the alcohol pads are for?
Safe smoking kits seem to cover everything except the devil hisself, tobacco.
You are absolutely correct. The Dems know exactly what they are doing, they know what results to expect and they are getting the results they want and expect.
They hate themselves, they hate America, they hate the unborn, they hate humanity. They hate life. They worship something they call “Gaia” but we know what its real name is.
Liberalism/Socialism/Communism are mental diseases. There is something very very wrong within their brain neural pathways.
This is insane. Not just crack pipes, most of these also have meth pipes.
This is what you would do if you were trying to destroy a nation.
If I’m going to pay for the crack pipe kits, I want one.
Where can I get one?
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