Via Moonbattery. This ought to make you feel good. Seattle crackheads are suffering fewer mouth cuts and fungal infections from dirty equipment – and you get to be a part of it.
No, really. Through a program partly funded by the Department of Public Health, you and I are springing for nice sanitary crack pipes that Seattle bureaufreaks distribute to back alley drug addicts at the rate of about ten per day.
Just as sterile syringes reduce the spread of HIV and other diseases, new and unbroken glass pipes are believed to prevent lip cuts and the spread of hepatitis strains. Rubber tips and new filters ward off mouth burns. Ascorbic acid helps prevent users from using lemon juice to dissolve cocaine rocks into an injectable liquid — a common practice that can lead to fungal infections. […]
We don’t have clients, we just have community members. I make it clear to everyone that everyone is family here,” [Shilo Murphy, executive director of the non-profit People's Harm Reduction Alliance, which runs the U-District needle exchange] said. “We believe all drug users should have the right to not get diseases and have the ability to prevent diseases.”
I’m sure the junkie will thank you for his wound and fungus-free existence, especially while he is on the prowl for his next fix. But he’s still going to break into your car, should the opportunity arise. And that can be hazardous, especially if it involves broken glass.
So, look on the bright side. At least you’re not buying him gloves, too. Not yet anyway.
Are you freakin kidding me? C'mon, really, with MY tax money!
I seem to remember the feds jailed that Cheech and Chong guy for 2 years, not for selling pipes, but for calling them what they were, POT PIPES.
I want some federal agent to bust these morons for distributing drug paraphenalia, and get my freakin tax dollars back. I could use them, LEGALLY!