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BidenPipes™: $30M Program Provides Crack Pipes to Vulnerable Communities.

A Controversial Biden Admin Plan Carried Out in the Name of ‘Racial Equity.’


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How to even begin. For starters, this is a terrible idea.

The Biden Administration is funding the distribution of crack pipes to advance “racial equity.”

A quick pop ‘round the internet, and you might find this definition of racial equity:

“Racial equity is a process of eliminating racial disparities and improving outcomes for everyone. It is the intentional and continual practice of changing policies, practices, systems, and structures by prioritizing measurable change in the lives of people of color.”

Okay, got it. Now where is the $30 million dollars going?

“The $30 million grant program…will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts,” the Washington Free Beacon reports. “Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for ‘smoking kits/supplies’…these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and “any illicit substance.”

So how exactly is the Biden Administration improving outcomes for ANY person of ANY race creed or color by handing them a crack pipe? Bleeding hearts may argue that it invites drug addicts to participate in a system that can then —hopefully —upsell them on other recovery programs; a tall order, putting the onus on the addict.

In addition to the questionable effectiveness of these programs, they aren’t very popular.

Sgt. Clyde Boatwright, president of the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police, says government resources are better spent on actually preventing drug abuse, not enabling users.

“If we look at more of a preventive campaign as opposed to an enabling campaign, I think it will offer an opportunity to have safer communities with fewer people who are dependable on these substances,” Boatwright told the Free Beacon

According to Town Hall, in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County, “safe smoking kits have already drawn the ire of community leaders…leading the county to stop including clean pipes in its kits aimed at helping users.”

A report from last year by the Capital Gazette goes into more detail:

The glass pipes were brought to the attention of community leaders by an Eastport Terrace resident, a recovering crack user who has been clean for 17 years, said Carl Snowden, a longtime civil rights activist and convener of the Caucus of African American Leaders.

Distributing pipes could have “unintended consequences” of tempting former drug users to relapse, said Snowden, who recommended the practice be stopped immediately.

$30 million dollars of taxpayer cash to enable current drug users and tempt recovering addicts?

This is nonsense.

CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicates that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during the 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the year prior.

Oh, and let’s not forget this:

According to Families Against Fentanyl, the CDC estimates half of all overdose deaths in the U.S. are directly caused by fentanyl — killing more Americans than suicide, COVID, and car accidents (but COVID still makes the chyron every night).

We’re just handing out drug paraphernalia, now? During a drug epidemic? So it’s okay for addicts —who absolutely need our help, by the way (no one is arguing that) —it’s okay for them to destroy their lives as long as it’s in a safe space with a clean pipe?

They call it “harm reduction.”

I have another word for it, but I can’t say it here.