According to the Washington Free Beacon, "The Church of Safe Injection, which bills itself as a 'nonprofit that fights for the health, rights, and dignity of people who use drugs (PWUD),' will receive funding through a $1.2 million grant the Biden administration awarded to a coalition of Maine groups."
A Free Beacon reporter picked up a crack pipe and meth pipe last week at the organization’s Lewiston, Maine, office yet did not provide a smoking kit, which typically contains different drug paraphernalia like alcohol wipes, copper wool, and a mouthpiece.
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A second organization set to get a grant, Maine Access Points, provided one of the outlet’s reporters a bag of a dozen crack pipes along with foil and a smoking kit that contained a mouthpiece, copper scrubber, lip balm, and instructions on how to smoke crack cocaine.
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The organization gave out three meth pipes, a snorting kit, naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and a condom.
A Free Beacon reporter likewise texted to ask if the Sanford location, one of the organization’s five locations, distributed crack pipes; an employee said, "Yes.”
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Unlike different groups that previously provided the Free Beacon with crack pipes within their smoking kits, the two Maine groups gave the outlet crack pipes separately from their smoking kits.
Zoe Brokos, a spokeswoman for the Church of Safe Injection, explained to the Free Beacon that the organization has not yet gotten the federal funds it was awarded. They continued that they intend to use the funds to buy "wound care kit supplies such as alcohol pads, gauze pads, and bandages."
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Brokos further explained to the outlet that the organization will proceed to distribute crack pipes and meth pipes yet will not use federal grants to fund them.
According to the outlet, the two organizations working in conjunction with the state's largest health system MaineHealth, and Amistad, a backing group for addicts, are "using the taxpayer-funded grants to facilitate the distribution of drug paraphernalia in each of Maine's 16 counties, with a focus on LGBT and homeless drug users, according to HHS grant information. The grant is set to be renewed annually through 2023."
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Even though the two groups help oversee the HHS grant award funds, the department left out the groups from the grant recipient announcement, listing only MaineHealth.
A local CBS affiliate reported that both groups were grant recipients, and the groups celebrated the funding announcement in separate Facebook posts.
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