Steve Robinson

What's a boofing kit?

If you've so thoroughly abused your veins that you can't get fentanyl in, the Boofing Kit is a non-needle syringe with some lubricant that you put in your butt.

It's called boofing.

You tried that?

I have not tried that, but we did get a boofing kit.

In Maine, you can't get mint flavored tobacco pouches in some cities, but you can get free boofing kits to squirt Dominican fentanyl up your ass and free needles.

Thank God.

But they did away with the one-to-one needle exchange requirement.

and instead you get one box of 100 needles.

And there was actually just an attempt to bring back the needle exchange requirement in the city of Lewiston that was voted down.

And so we've got needles everywhere.

I mean, the exchange program worked because users had to collect their dirty needles and bring them back.

and they were put into sharps containers and then they could get clean needles.

And now there's just needles through all of our public spaces.

And this entire program, keep in mind, was created in order to prevent the spread of bloodborne illnesses like Hep C and AIDS.

And this year Maine had its biggest ever spike of Hep C and HIV.

related to a cluster of individuals in Bangor who were all customers of the needle exchange clinic there.

Wow.

Well, that's a little bit off topic, but that's why I think you haven't seen 7OH take off to the extent that it will.

I mean, we're on the cusp of it.