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It’s never been easier to get it taxpayer-funded meth pipes and fentanyl freebasing kits in cities across the country. And if you want to get a sense of what drug policy would be like under a Kamala Harris presidency, look to the same cities operating under a Biden-Harris administration, which are adopting so-called “harm reduction” strategies that combat drug abuse. Instead of addressing the crisis, make it worse.
Harm reduction strategies were initially designed to reduce the negative effects of drug use by providing clean needles, pipes, and other materials to prevent the spread of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. The idea is that people will use drugs whether we like it or not, so why not make it “safe”?
As I explain in detail in my book “What’s Killing America: Inside the Radical Left’s Tragic Destruction of Our Cities,” These strategies have normalized drug use, created more addiction, and left cities struggling with rising overdose deaths, open-air drug markets, and a complete collapse of public safety.
I’ve seen this firsthand in Seattle, where I live. it took me about three minutes Public Health to receive taxpayer-funded medicine kits from Seattle-King County. I went into a needle exchange office in downtown Seattle and walked out with enough stuff to start my own drug den. No questions asked. I just had to ask for a “party kit”.
Public Health – Seattle medicine kits purchased from Seattle and King County. (Jason Rantz/AM 770 KTTH)
I have to do it Choose which meth pipe I want And chose a “hammer”, although I could also have gone with a straight glass pipe or what is colloquially known as a “bubble”. They also had cookers, tin foil, and even instructions for turning tin foil into a pipe to freebase fentanyl. Courtesy of your hard-earned tax dollars, drug paraphernalia was carelessly handed to me, by an agency whose purpose was to help me escape addiction, not enable it.
The most surprising thing is that there was no concern at all about whether I was a drug addict, a businessman or just trying to get something free. There was also no comment about how they could connect me with detox services when I was ready.
This is what harm reduction looks like in practice – facilitating drug use with taxpayers paying the bill.
and if Vice President Kamala Harris If you get anywhere near the White House, these policies will not only continue but spread into your community. Harris’s history of supporting drug legalization, as evidenced by her 2019 responses to an ACLU questionnaire, means she strongly agrees with these so-called “harm reduction” measures. And that should be a terrifying thought to anyone paying attention to how these programs are destroying cities like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
New York City opened the country’s first “supervised consumption site” in 2021. They are little more than a magnet for drug addicts – and nearby dealers are ready to sell their next product to drug addicts. The surrounding areas have become war zones, with residents living in fear as drug-related crimes increase.
Then there’s San Francisco, a city that has become the poster child for failed progressive policies. Harm reduction efforts include mass distribution of fentanyl test strips, aluminum foil and clean needles. outcome? The city saw an all-time high number of fatal overdoses, the majority of which were coming from fentanyl. Outdoor drug use is rampant because addicts have no incentive to stay clean while the city provides them with everything they need to stay drug-free.
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Los Angeles and its counties are not far behind. As the addicts are given pipes, the morgue fills with dead homeless people at an alarming rate. Meanwhile, Dallas activists have also jumped into the harm reduction campaign, though their efforts have been less publicized because they are handing out drug paraphernalia against state law, though they pay no legal costs for it. Have been. Although advocates claim harm reduction helps prevent overdose deaths, Texas has seen a steady increase in drug-related deaths, with Dallas County at the center of the crisis.
Let’s not pretend for a moment that President Harris will put public health first, especially when harm reduction is already in practice. A key element of the administration’s multibillion-dollar National Drug Control Strategy is to expand harm reduction measures to curb overdose deaths and promote treatment of substance use disorders. It has failed to reach meaningful results on any target.
A Public Health – Seattle and King County building in Seattle. (Jason Rantz/AM 770 KTTH)
Harm reduction means promoting addiction, not fighting it. And with Harris in the White House, it will get even worse with an even greater influx of taxpayer-funded drug kits, more monitored consumption sites, and more overdose deaths in cities across the country.
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We need policies that emphasize treatment, recovery, and accountability – not policies that hand pipes and syringes to addicts, keeping them locked in the same cycle we are supposed to help them escape. . This is not compassion; This is negligence.
We’ve already seen the damage done in Democrat-run cities. Do we really want to let this spread further?
