It’s a Free Country isn’t it?
Important Constitutional duties of state and national government include protecting citizens from dangerous products, health risks, ponzi schemes, false advertising, bait and switch tactics and crime. Gambling fits all of those descriptions and worse. America criminalized gambling twice before in its history. The nation shouldn’t have to learn the same lesson three times.
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All of the things you described had a definite victim. With gambling , everyone who goes into the casino knows exactly what they're getting into. They aren't being forced or duped into gambling, they go all by themselves, fully aware of the risks, usually realizing that they are going to lose money . There is no victim here.