All online poker site should be allowed

While that would be nice I think the US government has bigger issues to deal with right now.

Originally Posted by Stinsonflyer

All online poker site should be allowed

And all drugs and prostitution should be legal. Our country would be a better place to live, unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon

Originally Posted by zinzir

And all drugs and prostitution should be legal. Our country would be a better place to live, unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon

Not sure about ALL drugs but as far as poker the right is being paid to not let it become legal and unless casinos come together to create a site its not going to happen. Of course they arent making any money right now but its not like its hurting them either LOL

Originally Posted by abwil2

Not sure about ALL drugs but as far as poker the right is being paid to not let it become legal and unless casinos come together to create a site its not going to happen. Of course they arent making any money right now but its not like its hurting them either LOL

All drugs man, people who want them are taking them anyway, but if they were available at the store to people over 21, like alcohol and cigarettes, there would be no criminality associated with drugs anymore. No drug cartels, no murders and violence, and there would not be more people taking drugs either, look at cigarettes, there are so fewer smokers now than 20 years ago and cigarettes are still wildly available and legal.
Plus all the taxes collected from drug sales could be used for healthcare, education, infrastructure etc, not to mention the money saved from policing and incarcerating all the drug offenders.

I would really like to get back to playing a certain site I used to play on 13 years ago,poker something I think it was.

I would like to see US players at 888

Originally Posted by zinzir

All drugs man, people who want them are taking them anyway, but if they were available at the store to people over 21, like alcohol and cigarettes, there would be no criminality associated with drugs anymore. No drug cartels, no murders and violence, and there would not be more people taking drugs either, look at cigarettes, there are so fewer smokers now than 20 years ago and cigarettes are still wildly available and legal.
Plus all the taxes collected from drug sales could be used for healthcare, education, infrastructure etc, not to mention the money saved from policing and incarcerating all the drug offenders.

Other than one time when I was a teen, I've never used drugs. But I agree with you. The war on drugs was lost before it started. It's a total failure, so why continue throwing huge amounts of money and people at it? The lives lost because of the war on drugs probably rank close to the number of lives lost due to drug abuse itself.

I find someone of the poker news interesting. It seems a few states have opened things up. With recent events, its hard to say what will happen. Some states might be looking for a revenue boost.

Our US Congress is a legalized criminal enterprise, unless their palms are greased fat chance it will happen.

Deposited $100 into Ignition and turned it to $220 thus far this week. They said 100% bonus but have not lost yet to find out if that is true. Anyway, they list how much you can withdraw. At one point when I was up like $60 I could withdraw $40. Now I can't withdraw any. In theory, I was going to bitcoin withdraw and do a first bitcoin to ACR for another 100% LOL. Honestly I just like playing and not intending to ever withdraw. My goal would be to catch satellites into live tournaments from online tournaments. With that it mind, I have noticed illinois cashes in pocket fives forum on pokerstars. How is that possible?
I can not tie Ignition cashes to pocket fives
and then to Hendon Mob. I see pokerstars has no problem with that. Illinois online poker sucks. How should I handle this matter? I'd like to play here and there online even though I prefer live.

Yes agree!
Is there some news about this theme?


I miss partypoker,please PartyPoker comeback to Serbia

Originally Posted by zinzir

All drugs man, people who want them are taking them anyway, but if they were available at the store to people over 21, like alcohol and cigarettes, there would be no criminality associated with drugs anymore. No drug cartels, no murders and violence, and there would not be more people taking drugs either, look at cigarettes, there are so fewer smokers now than 20 years ago and cigarettes are still wildly available and legal.
Plus all the taxes collected from drug sales could be used for healthcare, education, infrastructure etc, not to mention the money saved from policing and incarcerating all the drug offenders.

Legalization may be a better approach than the war on drugs, but won't lead to "no drugs cartels, no murders and violence" and the government capturing all the benefits. Drugs can be mass produced at little cost causing the illegal trade to persist. The government price can be undercut while still making a massive profit.

I am surprised we haven't gotten more push from casinos considering they are shut down. They have blocked online gaming for quite some time and it could be stubbornness. That said, it would be nice for this to get a push!

Originally Posted by rj_montana

Legalization may be a better approach than the war on drugs, but won't lead to "no drugs cartels, no murders and violence" and the government capturing all the benefits. Drugs can be mass produced at little cost causing the illegal trade to persist. The government price can be undercut while still making a massive profit.

I think you are confused by the marijuana situation in Canada, where legalization did not bring down the price. But that is simply because it's not completely legalized, like tobacco and alcohol, and you can only get it in dispensaries which are boutique like retailers catering to the affluent, selling artisan strains, hydroponically grown in "state of the art facilities".
Cannabis Sativa is a weed from the kelp family, is very easy to grow, and has a higher yield per acre than tobacco. Once US farmers are able to grow it legally and sell it on the open market, no one could compete with their price, what makes you think that growing cannabis is any different than tobacco, corn or soybeans?
That combined with complete legalization and marijuana being available at Walmart and gas stations, the price by all means should be cheaper than cigarettes even with similar taxation, and no dealer would be able to compete with that.

Same with poppy, think about the war in Afghanistan, what do you think pays for the vast majority of weapons and supplies of the Taliban? I'll tell you if didn't know, it's the Afghan heroin consumed in West Europe and America. Make it legal, and let the American farmers grow poppy and sell it on the open market, legalize heroin and no dealer would be able to compete.

Cocaine is no different, farmers from all over the World would love to grow Coca plants and sell them legally on the open market. Even the US could grow Coca in Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

The war of drugs is nothing else than another prohibition, only that it applies to other products than alcohol. What happened to the bootleggers once alcohol was legalized would happen to the drug dealers, they would migrate to other ways of making money.
In the US the only people producing alcohol illegally nowadays are a few moonshiners in rural Appalachia, and they are dealt with in terms of operating without a license and minor tax evasion, not as drug dealers.

PS: I am not a drug user, never been and will never be, legal or not. I just think that governments of democratic countries should relax and tax instead of spending taxpayer's money to force people to behave a certain way, while indirectly encouraging criminality and making their countries less safe for everyone.

I think so, everyone has to choose where to play

It's not particularly helpful to point out that the cost of producing cannabis/tobacco/coca/poppy is low, because the product will not be sold at cost. The price of these substances, where illegal, is driven by the risk in manufacturing and distribution. The price where legal is a product of regulation and taxation. The difference between the regulated price and the actual cost of production is why the illegal trade persists after legalization. Unregulated traders undercut the price floor set by the government.