I think the difference is that drug use was at least kept out of nice/touristy parts of town. There was lots of blatant drug use all over town, but you could e

I think the difference is that drug use was at least kept out of nice/touristy parts of town. There was lots of blatant drug use all over town, but you could expect to go to Powells or Pioneer Courthouse Square without seeing people smoking out of pieces of foil. So while it was not a great or sustainable system to have police clear out good neighborhoods and force addicts into designated bad areas, having a city be equally unappealing to everyone is in the long run a lose-lose trade-off.