You can still gamble.

When it comes to hard drugs I can understand why there are reasonable arguments for legalization of personal use.

Idk how many reasonable arguments extend the overton window to thinking that meth should be advertised seemingly all over the place. Because gambling ads are actually everywhere.

The gambling industry has never shown evidence of self-control.

Modern sports gambling ads amount to fraud because winners are prevented from winning more through wager restrictions. The whole industry can only exist because it cheats and lies.

No. They are called "vices" because you get stuck in them. Ten thousand studies on mice tell us that addiction isn't learned morality but innate biology.

We also pass laws regulating murder/arson/theft even though those too can be avoided through self control.

We used to be able to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Being influencable by advertising is a moral failing. </s>