They have every right to choose their own poison.
I respect California's willingness and right to experiment with new concepts---it gives all the rest of us a chance to learn from them at no cost to us.
Poor examples can be as valuable a learning experience as good examples
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis