Keith Humphreys: Why Drug Reform Failed In West Coast Blue Cities
The wave of bold new decriminalization-centered approaches to drug policy reform that swept West Coast cities from San Francisco to Vancouver, B.C. starting around 2020 has failed, according to one the nation’s leading drug policy experts, former Obama White House drug policy advisor and Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys. On this week’s Blue City Blues, we invited Professor Humpreys on to explore why.
Humphreys, the author of a recent Brookings Institution paper on “The rise and fall of Pacific Northwest drug policy reform,” blames the failure on a sharp shift by reform advocates…
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