After pouncing and seizing their way through 2021, conservatives now "home in".
Explaining the Claim That the Biden Administration Is Funding ‘Crack Pipes’
The program provides funding for “safe smoking kits,” but it makes no specific mention of glass pipes. In response to the outcry, Biden administration officials denied offering funding for such pipes.
So who's lying?
The grant guidelines do not specify what the smoking kits should include. According to Harm Reduction International, a London-based nongovernmental organization, such kits can contain rubber mouthpieces, brass screens, lip balm, disinfectant wipes and glass stems — the “crack pipes” in question. The contents can vary based on the organization distributing the kit as well as state and local laws on the distribution of drug paraphernalia.
Moreover, the smoking kits are not specific to crack cocaine and can also be given to users of methamphetamine and opioids.
But...
Conservatives have homed in on a specific provision in an overdose prevention grant program to make a misleading claim about crack pipes.
Priceless.
This is a shit situation that the conservatives and progressives are equally responsible for.
Legalize all drugs. Lets the chips fall where they may. Police and prosecute all actual crimes harshly and universally. Do drugs, fine whatever. Burglary, theft, assault earns you 10 lashes and time in a work camp. with no access to drugs.
Either communities will get their shit together or they won't. Let's stop pretending we have any moral authority to tell other people what they can and cannot do when it has no direct and immediate effect on us. I'm so fucking tired of these naive cuckservatives moralizing as they grift and rape kids.