Other Sites

777 Casino
online casino

Slots Compared To Heroin

Anti-casino groups are taking it to the next level. I thought that they have done everything to try and bring casinos down but this is something else. Something else. The Boston Herald published a feature article on the battle against casinos and detailed the “new” argument:

An anti-casino group is asking legislators to reject gambling, comparing slot machines to heroin.

“Slot machines have escaped the same kind of scrutiny we give every other product in the marketplace,” said Richard Young, president of Casino Free Mass. “This debate should be all about predatory gambling, government’sversion of subprime lending.”

Young’s group has stepped up its efforts in the wake of staunch casino opponent House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi’s departure, fearing the new leadership will renew a push on Beacon Hill for resort-style casinos.

I was trying to see exactly how they saw the link between slots and heroin but the closest explanation was:

In a letter sent to lawmakers, Young told elected officials to scrutinize the “insidious design, technology and marketing of slot machines,” and to “seek the truth about the predatory powers of electronic gambling devices and reject efforts to legalize them in Massachusetts.”

Although I understand that gambling can become a problem for some people, I really think that it is not fair that people would try and make a link between slots and such a detestable drug. If they wanted to do that, they should have been a little bit more explanatory, shouldn’t they?

I hope that people have more sense than to simply believe these kinds of statements.