youngster gambling in the news (again)

[Jeff W]

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Well, you swallowed one line of gateway bullchit after you heard it repeated enough times - you'll probably fall for this one too with a few more repetitions.

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Gateway analogies are an alarming gateway to gateway analogies.

[bobbyi]

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using money to gamble that's supposed to be used for other things like a winter jacket

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The example was extremely helpful here. Otherwise, I would have had no concept of the sorts of things one might purchase using money.

[scotty34]

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Poker as the gateway to drugs and sex

[/ QUOTE ] This makes me wish I started playing poker earlier

[bobbyi]

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Well, you swallowed one line of gateway bullchit after you heard it repeated enough times - you'll probably fall for this one too with a few more repetitions.

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I want to insult the pot-is-a-gateway drug theory, but honestly there is some truth to it. If I didn't have a lot of experience smoking pot, I don't think I would have ever been comfortable trying e or acid or mushrooms. It's kind of like poker. If you've never played 3/6, it's pretty intimitidating to sit down for the first time at a 100/200 table. I guess that's the upside to pot. The downisde is that I have known plenty of people for whom it turned out to be a gateway to a cigarette habit.

[GrannyMae]

The downisde is that I have known plenty of people for whom it turned out to be a gateway to a cigarette habit.


many people in quebec mix tobacco with the weed when rolling.**

pot is mostly decriminalized there but the frogs who do this should be sentenced to pick the fields on KGC land


disclaimer: any and all pot references are based on knowledge of my friend gladys's glaucoma meds [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[NoTalent]

These damn kids are gonna f it up for the rest of us. The last thing we need is another reason to make all forms of online gambling illegal...

There was a news story on tonight on the news about this same thing. School aged kids going to gambling anon meetings and throwing their lives away :|

[thrillhouse7]

Meth is my gateway drug.

but seriously, people who mistake correlation and cause/effect bother me.

[WackoJacko]

I love youth gambling, more fish, easier money

if anything we should try to encourage it as long as it isn';t your kids

[contentless]

You love youth? Who knew?

[NAU_Player]

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when are the parents going to step up and take responsibility?

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