Legalized internet gambling in New Jersey will do more harm

[edhopper]

IMHO, than legalized pot. But I haven't seen any big media brouhaha about that.

[Laxman]

1. I Took The PATH into NYC Last Week...

every single ad on the train was for Internet gambling! Every single one. There must be 50 individual placards on a PATH car-maybe more. The ads themselves were disturbing. The fact that every advertisement was encouraging you to be the next "Online Poker Millionaire" was like a scene out of They Live, only I didn't need the glasses!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

2. Someone Who Is Friends With The Fat Man

Somebody connected to Christie has to be making big bucks off of this. The fact that the PATH trains are plastered with the ads (PATH is run by the Port Authority) is probably an off-shoot of his political control of the agency as well. No health care exchange, no minimum wage hike, no open space funding, no lots of things, but Christie finds a way to bring us internet gambling. What a great governor!

[Make7]

3. How much harm is legalized pot going to cause? ( n/t )

[edhopper]

4. Little if any

but there is a big debate in the media about it, giving lip service to many of the conservative idiots who weigh in on this stuff.

If you watch the news you would see how much coverage Colorado has gotten. While this happening in NJ has gone largely unreported.