Homeless Addicts Receive Free Pipes As Seattle Parks Littered With Drug Paraphernalia: VIDEO

Although New York City has suffered under the policies of leftist mayors for generations, many pundits wonder how the Big Apple will fare now that a self-avowed socialist is leading the city’s government.

On the opposite coast, a city that has been tilting toward socialism for years might hold the answer.

And according to one local advocate for change, the picture Seattle paints is not a pretty one. Here’s what We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez said about the state of affairs in the city, per Fox News:

“In this park alone, which is Dr. Jose Rizal Park, Lewis Park, and Sturgus Park, there’s three connected parks here. In one afternoon, we picked up several hundred pieces of foil in the off-leash dog park, near the children’s playgrounds, and the memorials, and the pagoda that’s over here as well.”

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“You can just see every one of these foils was a pill. It could have been a potential overdose,” Suarez said. “So pretty jarring when you think about this being in our parks, at our bus stops, you can see the straws. You can see there’s needles as well. And oftentimes we’ll find that the drugs are still rolled up in the foil, and they get dropped. And we’ve had several hundred cases of overdoses and poisoning of infants and dogs.”

Suarez said that King County Behavioral Health in downtown Seattle now provides information on how to reverse an overdose in dogs.

“That’s how bad it is,” Suarez said. “It’s how prevalent this is in our shared spaces.”

She said area stores will sell a “bubble,” also called an oil burner, pizzo, or pilo, a type of glass pipe used to smoke substances including fentanyl for $6, and that King County gives them out for free “in the name of harm reduction.”

We Heart Seattle has been documenting the societal slide for a while:

Leo strikes again with a truth bomb.
He has an apartment but still uses illegal drugs in our parks.
He openly admitted the only thing that’ll stop him is 6 months in jail.
Sweeping homeless camps just for them to return, with no real law enforcement, is a complete waste of time… pic.twitter.com/tTF0uqyx40

— We Heart Seattle (@weheartseattle) April 11, 2026

This is not a one off … people have housing but still are on the streets and in tents, using drugs, and populating parks. Listen to them say it’s true 👇🏼 @MayorofSeattle @SeattleCouncil https://t.co/ZPsaQWNdd8 pic.twitter.com/bpMRkGShDr

— We Heart Seattle (@weheartseattle) April 10, 2026

NEW: Seattle Councilmember Eddie Lin says he might call for the temporary closure of Lewis Park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.
He admits the illegal camping and open-air-drug use is out of control. I went there late Wednesday evening and saw it for myself.
Lin… pic.twitter.com/TKR8VZLlf9

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) April 9, 2026

Even far-left San Fransisco ended its policy of handing out drug paraphernalia more than a year ago when confronted by its ramifications, as CBS News reported at the time:

“We can no longer accept the reality of two people dying a day from overdose. The status quo has failed to ensure the health and safety of our entire community, as well as those in the throes of addiction. Fentanyl has changed the game, and we’ve been relying on strategies that preceded this new drug epidemic, which ends today,” Lurie said in a press release.

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Under new guidelines issued by the city’s Department of Public Health and DPH Director Dan Tsai, individuals must now receive treatment counseling or be connected to services to receive safer drug use supplies.

“Distribution of foil, pipes and straws for safer-use supplies, we will no longer allow that in public spaces, meaning not in the street, not in parks, not on the sidewalks,” said Tsai.  “There is a place for that in a more indoor, treatment-controlled setting, where someone can have a high-quality discussion to try to get someone plugged into treatment.”

Suarez goes deeper into the growing problem in this recent interview: