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Anyone else think now might be a good time to get a bargain on U.S. Marijuana Index stocks and maybe make a little money while supporting a new industry with a lot of bold entrepreneurs in it? WaPo "Marijuana stocks tumble after Jeff Sessions announces pot crackdown" I'll still bet on the marijuana industry.

A study of FBI crime statistics released last month has found that marijuana legalization is decreasing violent homicides related to the illegal drug trade in U.S. border states. In this article I talk some about the study and link to an article I wrote in 2010 in which I predicted this would be the outcome of legalizing marijuana by thinking about the problem of drug related violent crime economically. When we think economically about tough social problems, it can reveal truths that are counter to intuition.