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kingstnap • yesterday at 5:09 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

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.


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UpsideDownRide • today at 8:00 AM

I was addicted to hard drugs. When in therapy I've met people there for gambling addiction. The takeout lesson was that for some people it is basically the same as stimulants. They had the same issues, fucked up their lives just as much.

So yeah it is on the scale of advertising meth.

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dualvariable • yesterday at 7:39 PM

I'm actually consistent in the other direction.

I find intrusive advertising toxic and want it all reduced or banned.

Not just tobacco and gambling ads, but everything else as well.

(No, I don't care that it is like advocating for democracy in 10th-century England and would entirely blow up how our economy currently "works")