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Interested to see how this turns out. This has to do with state laws and federal powers.

I think gambling should be legal, but should be illegal to advertise. Just like the government settled with the tobacco companies to restrict advertising, we should do the same with gambling companies. No advertising.

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Agree that gambling should be legal, but only about specific things and only in specific places. You should have to physically travel to a location to gamble, and once you're there, you can only gamble on a short list of things, like games of chance played on-location, and maybe horse racing. Gambling via the internet should be illegal. Gambling on sports, the news, political events, and anything else not on the whitelist should be illegal.

The States that permit cannabis have similar advertising restrictions. So does alcohol and other vices. Seems a fair & easy step to me.

The challenge with regulating cannabis advertising is that dispensaries have turned their storefronts into highly effective advertisements. Few storefronts in NYC are more eye-catching.

It's hard to regulate advertising when the store itself is the ad.

Same is true for (many) the other vices. Doesn't seem terrible for them. Much better than currently where Kalsho is twice in every NFL break, WNBA (Valkyries!), MLB, Yahoo Finance and commercial breaks on TNT and various Roku channels.

Last time I visited the US, I had never seen as immense an advertising banner as the one on the side of the building in LA advertising cannabis.

It incentivizes assassination.

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