The darker side of legalized gambling
How do you get hooked on something that isn∙t even there? You can∙t snort a lottery ticket, or smoke a bet on a horse race or drink a poker machine. Gambling is a high that∙s all in your head.
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Gambling casinos history:
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- 1905: The town of Las Vegas is founded when the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company holds a land auction at the site on May 15.
1912: The Majestic - Las Vegas's very first theater - opens, featuring the best vaudeville acts and motion pictures of the time. - The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
- Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
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