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Southside Harm Reduction Services, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit featured in Walz’s announcement, the “harm reduction” services include the provision of kits that contain syringes, sterile water, drug cookers, and lube that allow users to ingest drugs “through the rectum (anus, butthole).”The organization has touted the paraphernalia—called “booty bumping” or “boofing” kits—in social media posts and on its website, as both a safer method to ingest some drugs and an efficient way to get high. Junkies may booty bump because drugs “reach the bloodstream quickly,” allowing users to “reach a high faster than some other routes of administration,” Southside Harm Reduction says.“Try to poop before. This is so your drugs are absorbed better,” Southside Harm Reduction Services advises in a pamphlet contained in the kits. “Stand, squat, or lay on your side in a comfortable position. It never hurts to have a boofing buddy!” The Walz administration has given $3,104,365 to Southside Harm Reduction Services since 2020 for syringe exchange programs and other “harm reduction” initiatives, according to state spending records.