People now feel bold enough to ignore the law particularly when they know it won't be enforced. If the Feds moved in, think of the outcry there would be. Rosa would be up the creek with a paddle in this climate. It does not bode well for the future of the Republic if law is ignored for the latest fashionable trend.
I've been intrigued by the events in San Francisco. I gather from the number of posts on that subject there are others in the forum who find the subject interesting.
Given the "gay marriage" news from San Francisco I found this news piece from NPR interesting:
California legalized marijuana for medical use almost a decade ago, but under federal law, distributing or selling the drug remains illegal. Some Oakland residents fear an increase in non-medical drug traffic. Judy Campbell of member station KQED reports. (audio link at Weekend Edition - Sunday and scroll down to Oakland Wary of Drug Laws' Impact
Personally I think marijuana and heroin and cocaine and ... should be legalized, regulated and taxed, but that is irrelevant right now. The folks in Oakland (and other parts of California) have decided that Federal law does not apply to them, so they decided to ignore it. Marijuana is openly sold in the community described in the news piece.
It seems to me that there is a connection between the events in San Francisco and the story from Oakland. In either case you can call the actions "civil disobedience" or "moral decadence" or "scofflaw" depending on your perspective, but there is a common thread there.
Only in California?

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