It does seem like legalization made it qualitatively worse. To quote the parent comment: > Then when I was home for the holidays every man I knew from my home

It does seem like legalization made it qualitatively worse. To quote the parent comment: > Then when I was home for the holidays every man I knew from my home town that was near my age was doing it. From how he's describing it, this sounds like a big change. I'm also getting the sense that maybe 1 in 100 guys did it before, and it's dropping to like 1 in 10. I think the reason is that drugs can be bought in cash, but bettors depend on credit cards, and when that rail was legalized, the floodgates opened.