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Blight, flight, and ‘drug tourism’: How decriminalization created blue-city problem

By Breccan F. Thies
Published May 27, 2023 10:00am ET
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Blight, flight, and ‘drug tourism’: How decriminalization created blue-city problem
The drug decriminalization wave that swept across America’s most liberal cities has fallen short of its promises of improving drug addiction recovery and overdose deaths. Beginning in the mid-2010s and making a significant uptick since 2020, drug decriminalization was sold by politicians and liberal activists as a way to combat substance-use disorder by treating it […]


The drug decriminalization wave that swept across America’s most liberal cities has fallen short of its promises of improving drug addiction recovery and overdose deaths.

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