Biden Admin to Fund Clean Crack Pipes, Other Drug Measures

The Biden administration will be funding a federal program which it says aims to reduce diseases and cut drug use overall.

The program includes the controversial distribution of "safe smoking kits" — or crack pipes. The Department of Health and Human Services grant program is set to begin in May, and applications closed on Monday. It will provide $30 million to nonprofits and local governments for multiple purposes, including education and counseling for drug addicts.

But it is the "safe smoking kits/supplies" that stir controversy, just the same as "clean needles" programs have in the past. An HHS spokesperson told The Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on the story, that the pipes were for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and "any illicit substance."