[Jukebox-list] gambling

[David Breneman]

--- Ron Rich <ronnnrich at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   The games in this area are still permitted to operate due to the
> fact that in (about) 1951, the state of Kahl-lee-for-nee-ya
> required that the owners of the machines purchase a " U.S. Gov.
> gambling device sticker" --Well, so I've been told, some of them
> did just that, and as soon as it was afixed to the pin, the state
> (or maybe the Feds?) picked up the machine, because it was now (for
> sure)  an illegal gambling device--by the admission of the owner.

Sounds like the way the government used to "regulate"
marijuana.  It was legal to posess only if you had a permit,
but to get the permit you had to prove you posessed some.
This law was also overturned by the courts, so the feds
responded by making pot the country's first non-manufactured
"narcotic."


David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com

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