Should casinos/lotteries be legal?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Both should be legal. Casinos need to be done differently than the way they are now though which is basically giving a monopoly to certain people.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There are a ton of casinos just south of Minneapolis, and I know plenty of people who visit them fairly frequently. None of them are expecting to come back big winners, or even with the money they are bringing in. People blow as much money on stupid things all the time. At least in this case we get more of it back.

As for the lottery, the primary use of it I see is for scratch off tickets to be given away as prizes in work promotions. No one expects to ever win big (though it was nice the time I got over $40 from a batch of them I won.)