You can't legislate morality. If you make gambling and drugs illegal they just go underground and become worse problems and foster a criminal underclass/organized crime that becomes a much bigger problem.

Better to keep them legal and put sensible controls on them, emphasis on sensible obviously that's not what we have going on here. Outside of our freedom on marijuana in some states now at least when you don't consider how anybody that drives a car can be arrested for impaired driving even if they're totally sober from the marijuana. If they have smoked in the past week or two. That's another story though.

Well, the probably imprison less people because they are functioning much better as a society. The question is if imprisoning people is better than not imprisoning them in this fucked up society.

I'm in the US, but we generally lock up and/or deport way too many people; incarceration causes more problems than it solves, and serving white supremacy is the main social goal and outcoe.

But I think this is a separate conversation. The anti-gambling laws I'm talking about are the ones that would prevent constant Draft Kings advertisements and all the money that gets fed back into our political system. We've got so far away from acknowledging the damage that gambling causes, and gambling, as far as I'm concerned, is just a mugging with extra steps, yet paid propaganda has papered over the criminality.