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Legal
Gambling Age
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
July 4, 2006
A study of the legalities of gambling and particularly
legal gambling on the Internet is sufficient to entice
any law interpreter. Whilst on foot, governments are
able to instruct casinos on how they should function in
terms of the confines of the laws that facilitate legal
gambling, on the web no-one is too sure of who has
sovereignty or where legal gambling begins and ends. The
nature of the superhighway has meant that many states
that would like to ban all Internets gambling in their
territory are not capable to prevent their citizens from
gambling legally on websites based in another land. It
cannot be comprise as illegal gambling and yet according
to the authorities, it is not legal either.
More about the legal gambling age
Credit must on the other hand be given to the lawmakers
for the regulation of legal gambling in the general
industry. It is significant to prevent underage or
inebriated persons from gambling, as they are not deemed
responsible enough to gamble their finances and incomes.
Controversy will on the other hand always surround
issues when the law is accused of restricting people’s
freedom. Winna Vegas Casino lately came under fire for
allowing the legal gambling age to be 18 instead of 21.
Consequently they have now raised it and have done so
under the new state law of Iowa that states that
underage gambling is a crime. The issue was
controversial because the casino was linked to a
Reservation compact in Nebraska and again Sovereignty
was questioned.
Conclusion
Since sites are often based offshore, the gambling
company will frequently tell the gambler that it is
their responsibility to insure it is legal for them to
gamble. The legal
gambler must first decide if the game and wager is
legal from both their perception and that of the Casino
in their home state. Then they must make a decision
whether laws that were drawn up before the advent of
telecommunications apply to modern legal gambling
technology. Southern states such as Nevada and Louisiana
tend to be very strict with gambling and suggest that
almost all gambling online is illegal. Nevertheless, one
may question these states’ jurisdiction over the
Internet. Legal gambling may well be contested in these
territories as a Judge in New York ruled on a
pornography case that it would be enormously burdensome
for the commerce interstate to have to negotiate 50
state laws over the Internet.
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