The Biden Administration, in all its infinite wisdom, has decided handing out crack pipes like Halloween candy just isn’t crazy enough. They need to go bigger, badder, and uncut. So somewhere, in some steel gray room with no windows, a bureaucratic numbskull said this:
Why stop at crack? Why not heroin? What about fentanyl?
And now the DOJ may allow safe injection sites for drug addicts.
Fox News is reporting that “a year after winning a major court battle against the opening of so-called safe injection sites — safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses — the Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing them.”
“In response to questions from The Associated Press, the Justice Department said it is ‘evaluating’ such facilities and talking to regulators about ‘appropriate guardrails.’”
“Although we cannot comment on pending litigation, the Department is evaluating supervised consumption sites, including discussions with state and local regulators about appropriate guardrails for such sites, as part of an overall approach to harm reduction and public safety,” the agency told AP.
There’s that phrase again: harm reduction.
You can talk about “guardrails” and “supervision” and “harm reduction” until you’re blue in the face, but what it all comes down to is this: are you deterring these people IN ANY WAY from using illegal drugs that may result in death? Or are you playing the part of the “cool mom” who lets her son’s high school friends come over and drink in the garage because “it’s safer than doing it out there.”
According to data provided by Families Against Fentanyl, fentanyl overdoses are now the leading cause of death for adults between the ages of 18 and 25.
“The fentanyl crisis is getting worse, not better. Fake pills with deadly amounts of fentanyl are popping up everywhere. It’s in fake Xanax and Percocets, it’s being laced in cocaine and ecstasy. A single pill can kill,” Families Against Fentanyl founder James Rauh, who lost his son to fentanyl poisoning, said in a Thursday statement.
Go on, Garland —tell Mr. Rauh that instead of stopping the drugs and getting them off the streets, you’ve decided to play “cool mom” and destroy lives and communities.
Americans addicted to drugs need treatment programs —not a safe place to slowly kill themselves.
