Only if you don’t consider other effects. People like gambling, and making gambling illegal consistently has the effect of driving it underground and funding organised crime. If you don’t have something like a lottery, people come up with equivalents themselves. There appears to be a demand for gambling of all sorts; making it illegal doesn’t make the demand go away.
Only if you don’t consider other effects. People like gambling, and making gambling illegal consistently has the effect of driving it underground and funding organised crime. If you don’t have something like a lottery, people come up with equivalents themselves. There appears to be a demand for gambling of all sorts; making it illegal doesn’t make the demand go away.