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qualify.  See Regs., Conn. State Agencies § 12-571-11b(a)

(1997), authorizing telephone account wagering; Md. Bus.

Reg. Code Ann. § 11-805(a) (1997) (same); Rev. Stat. Neb.

Ann. § 2-1239 (1997) (same); NY Consol. Law Service, Racing

& Wagering § 1012 (1997) (same); Oh. Admin. Code Ann. 3769-

3-32(A) (Anderson 1997) (same); 4 Penn. Stat. § 325.218(b)

(1997) (same).  Other state statutes speak more broadly,

leaving ample room for Internet gambling.  See Kent. Rev.

Stat. § 230.378(1) (Michie 1996), which authorizes telephone

account wagering, together with § 230.210(17) (Michie 1996),

which defines telephone account wagering to include communi-

cation by any electronic medium; Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann.

465.090-94 (1997), which allows gambling via telecommunica-

tions when conducted pursuant to license; and Ore. Rev.

Stat. § 462.015(2) (1997), which authorizes electronic media

account wagering.

63. Casinos offer a "hypnotic mix of light, noise, alcohol

and day-into-night, night-into-day indulgence, to infuse in

the gamblers and vacationers a hazy, dazy sense of letting

go."  David Spanier, Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Inside

Las Vegas (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992), p. 14.

Casinos "design facilities so patrons lose track of time,

. . . treating their customers as if they were rats in a

cage."  Bernie Horn, communications director of the

National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, Testimony

before the National Gambling Impact Study Commission,

Washington, August 20, 1997, <http://www.ngisc.gov/meetings/

aug2097/aug20p17.html>.

64. "[T]he social rewards of gambling . . . include com-

panionship, empathy, and social interaction.  As gamblers

become socialized into a gaming mileu [sic], their con-

tacts with nongamblers often become less meaningful, and

they find that other settings lack the social rewards

offered by the gambling world.  In order to remain part of

that social world, individuals must continue their gam-

bling."  John D. Rosecrance, Gambling without Guilt: The

Legitimation of an American Pastime (Pacific Grove, Calif.:

Brooks/Cole, 1988), p. 163.

65. If drugs were legalized, "consumers would have access

to the legal system to protect them against fraud and neg-

ligence on the part of the producer.  Producers would no

longer have to resort to violence to enforce contracts and

ensure payments."  Mark Thornton, The Economics of

Prohibition (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press,

1991), p. 151.

66. See, for example, Sen. Jon Kyl's analysis of the

issue: "On one hand, they say no way can you control this,