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I know about it.
So the adults had to step in. That's a degenerate drug and crime ridden ghetto, not an anarchy. You can find lots of similar "freetowns" in the third world shitholes.
Not quite.
The gangsters aren't actually part of the community, they've just been taking advantage of the situation for decades. They've been tolerated because they existed in a sort of grey area, and the cannabis trade represented some sort of rebellious attitude towards the establishment, plus it attracted a lot of tourists, and tourist money, to the local businesses.
However in recent years all the immigrant gangsters have been playing shoot-em-up and ruining things for everyone (go figure), and so the community came together and decided - by unanimous vote - to collaborate with the authorities to eliminate the trade altogether.
Who would've taught that having no authority to curb crime and violence would lead to criminally minded people abusing that lack of control? And they had to hold a democratic vote (what would happen if it wasn't unanimous?) to bring in such an authority into their anarchy. That's exactly my point.
If it's not a unanimous decision, then nothing is done. There have been many votes and attempts over the years at reaching consensus to get the trade removed, but they haven't been able to until now.