Setting Win Limitations

[Alan Mendelson]

No, what he's saying is that for some gambling can be as bad as drugs and the research is on his side. What I've read on the subject would suggest that gambling is actually worse for those that it effects. Unlike cocaine its effects are not as uniform and require mental risk factors.

What he did was spin the data to cover a larger demographic. Gambling does not effect everyone like a drug. But for those that it does, it's just as bad if not worse.

I have talked to actual addicts (drugs and gambling) and they have stated without hesitation that for them gambling was the hardest of their addictions to beat.

No Frank. What he did was spin scientific research into a political statement. That's exactly what he did. Please don't let your personal bias of disliking gambling to get in the way of seeing this.

There are plenty of good arguments about gambling and addition, but this one was just a way to spin public opinion by picking "convenient facts" to fit the argument. It's what lobbyists do well.

And what offends me the most is that instead of presenting info about addictiveness of gambling-- which I would not object to-- he raises the issue that expanding gambling would lead to legalization of drugs. That is an absurd argument.