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Maryland legislators voted 86-52 in a Nov. 2007 special session to put a slots referendum that would change the state's Constitution on the Nov. 2008 ballot. The Constitution would be amended to add 15,000 slot machines at five locations: Anne Arundel, Cecil, and Worcester Counties, City of Baltimore, and on state property at Rocky Gap Lodge and Golf Resort near Cumberland. Two of the sites are racetracks--Laurel Park in Anne Arundel and Ocean Downs in Worcester. Legislative analysts predict that $650 million a year would be generated for the state. Results of the referendum were 1,444,340 for the amendment and 1,018,047 against. Approval is still needed in the 2009 legislative session.

     
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Monday, 17 March 2008 15:43

Organizations and Studies

AFA Online (American Family Association) Gambling Articles
http://www.afa.net/gambling/default.asp

BWCUMC Stop Slots Video Clips

http://bwcumc.org/content/stop-slots

Citizens Against the Racecourse
http://www.littleorleans.org/

Focus on the Family Citizen Link - Gambling 

http://www.citizenlink.org/FOSI/gambling

The Future of Western Maryland
http://www.thefutureofwesternmaryland.org/

Marylanders United to Stop Slots

http://www.marylandersunited.com

StopSlots Maryland

http://www.stopslotsmd.com

National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling (NCALG)
http://www.ncalg.org

National Gambling Impact Study Commission Report
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ngisc/reports/fullrpt.html

The 1998 Montana Gambling Study:
http://leg.state.mt.us/textonly/publications/research/past_interim/gsc98.asp

Gambling: a Controlling Substance by William N. Thompson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gamble/procon/thompson.html

Social and Economic Costs

The Business-Economic Impacts of Licensed Casino Gambling: Short-term Gain but Long-term Pain (excerpt) by John Warren Kindt
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gamble/procon/kindt.html

Easy Money! A Report on America’s Booming Gambling Industry and its Economic and Political Clout
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gamble/

What Gambling Costs Missourians
http://www.casinowatch.org

Compulsive and Problem Gambling – Selected State Sites

Arizona Council on Compulsive Gambling
http://www.azccg.org

Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling
http://www.ccpg.org

Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey
http://www.800gambler.org/

Delaware Council on Gambling Problems
http://www.dcgp.org/

Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling
http://www.gamblinghelp.org/

Indiana Problem Gambling Awareness Program
http://www.ipgap.indiana.edu

Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling)
http://www.masscompulsivegambling.org

Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling
http://www.wi-problemgamblers.org/

Compulsive and Problem Gambling - Selected National Sites:

Administration on Aging (Gambling and Older Adults)
http://www.aoa.gov/prof/notes/docs/gambling_older_adults.pdf

Gamblers Anonymous
http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/

Institute for Problem Gambling
http://www.gamblingproblem.org/

National Senior Problem Gambling Task Force
http://www.seniorproblemgambling.org/

National Council on Problem Gambling
http://www.ncpgambling.org/

North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries
http://www.naspl.org/

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