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Unintended Consequences of Gun Violence
Many states around the US have made it legal to use marijuana for recreational uses as well as for health uses. Legalizing drugs leads to more production, which has hurt some smaller growers of marijuana but that's an anticipated consequence. The higher use of marijuana has led to lower fertility rates, fewer births because marijuana use lowers the likelihood of pregnancy through health effects on both women and men. They're inevitable. It's just the nature of complex adaptive systems and making choices.