Are online casinos legal?
For many years gambling was associated with the lower echelons of society, you can just picture the saloons where highwaymen used to stop to drink and gamble. This image was perpetuated by many modern movies which portrayed images of rough men gambling who were behaving badly. Due to this and a number of other factors the idea of gambling was looked down upon and thought of as an unpleasant pastime even though many high class societies were also engaging in gambling. It was considered a dangerous addiction whereby players would do anything to win money and often ended up in terrible debt after betting the clothes on their back. During the 1920's together with prohibition many states and countries outlawed gambling because they believed it was an evil pastime that also caused many of the drinking problems of that time. After the Second World War, the idea of gambling was looked at again by many different nations and in the 1960's it became legalized once more in a number of states of the US. Since then legalized gambling has spread across the world with many different counties allowing some if not all forms of gambling. To say that gambling is considered a sport may be a slight exaggeration but that should not prevent society looking at it favorably as it is definitely a great pastime offering good entertainment value.