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Are there any cities or towns in the US that tend to combine low, moderate, or even bearable crime rates with high drug availability (even open air markets)? I know this sounds like an odd question, but take it for what its worth.
Drugs are available anywere, it just depends on what your fix is. The cheaper, but more potent stuff is more likely to be found in low-income/high crime areas. The mid-priced drugs will be more common in lower-middle class areas up to upper middle-class. The pricey stuff will be available in the upper-middle class to wealthy areas with little crime.
I would say NY and NJ area. Interstate 95 is a major drug route out of New York for smugglers in NY going to Boston, Philly, Baltimore, and DC. Everybody knows how bad 95 is. Maybe that is why NY crime is so low. The NY criminals stopped being crackheads and started to be suppliers, and the crackheads they are supplying are in Baltimore and Philly and DC.
L.A. or SF,you can be at an open air market and any number of people will be smoking,it won't be for sale in the market (not for another year) but it's easier to get than anywhere else in the country. That is only weed though,both of these cities also have neighborhoods where it's easy to get a hold of other stuff,but they are also not the safest parts of the city. In Haight and Ashbury in SF which is a far cry from it's glory days you can be offered any number of drugs depending on how you look just walking up the street though,and this isn't a high crime area.
Define drug. Florida state-wide is all about pill-poppers via shady physicians and licensed prescribers. They are everywhere. More intellectual, learned cities- Seattle, Portland, San Fran et al. will have more psychedelic trade that is less-than-hidden.
Truth is drugs are everywhere. I went to public high school for two years and all that was available was some grass and the occasional piece of acid. I transferred to a 12 K a year private elite high school and could score coke, heroin and meth by second period every day.
College town makes sense. Madison, Wisconsin and Ithaca, New York I imagine have a fair amount of "hippie drugs" and have below average crime.
I'd think the harder drugs, particularly things like cocaine and meth, are usually connected to high crime. I also think this is a bizarre question and maybe we should consult the authorities
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