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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION has issued new recommendations to “safeguard health and minimise the eventual economic harm” that could result from compulsive or excessive gambling online.
The recommendations call for member states to designate a specific, competent regulatory body to monitor online gambling, and suggest providing players with a set of tools to inform themselves about their winnings and losses as they play.
The Commission is urging member states to ensure that minors cannot gamble online and that their contact with gambling, such as through advertising, is minimised. Advertisements for online gambling should not make unfounded statements about a player’s prospects of winning, nor should they put pressure on people (especially minors) to take part, it says.
It also recommends a registration process for player accounts, so that users have to provide information on their age and identity for gambling operators to verify.
While registering, players could be given an opportunity to set spending limits or sign up for alerts about their winnings or losses as they gamble online, according to the recommendations.
Players should be provided with ongoing support to prevent gambling-related problems and have access to the relevant helplines. Meanwhile, member states should make sure that online gambling operators are given suitable training for interacting with players about gambling issues.
Member states’ gambling regulations should set out the basic information requirements for gambling sites – particularly in relation to outlining the risks to players. The Commission also recommends member states collect data about the opening and closing of player accounts.
The Commission’s recommendations were informed in part by a recent study on online gambling. The study noted that financial limits and alerts were the most effective consumer-measure tested by the study in leading users to think more about the money they were spending on their online gambling.
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it seems hash and weed is all the guards can get STOP wasting time going afterthosedrugs i would think all resorces and time should be spent trying to get as much herion and cocaine of the streets they are the problem drugs people will do crazy things to get there hands on those drugs when they have no cash which is always, com on get your act together enough is enough earn your wage end of
@Danny
I would like to point out that I work with drug addicts every day! Class B (HASH)has longer lasting and probably even worse effects than the various Heroin’s, Crack’s , amphetamine’s that are out there
Long term use makes people so paranoid, and it’s a very different situation then that most perceive Class B the calming relaxing effects that we see on TV
If u think our Law Enforcers are wasting their time Then I suggest u have a good think about this 1, if your child had been smoking this (SHITE is how i would describe it ) for years and their once intelligent curious minds were active now there brains are so fried that you can’t even have a simple conversation with them , then maybe u would think twice !!!!!
Class A,B, &C are all as bad as each other,
Illegal Importers, Dealers of banned illegal substances should not be jailed its too good for them, they should be made work day in day out in homes where these poor folk are detained due to drug induced mental health issues! That would teach them!
I call bullshit Anita, how can you put cannabis in the same category as heroin? Are you for real? I haven’t heard of anyone dying of a cannabis overdose. Also, cannabis doesn’t necessarily make people paranoid, it affects people differently. And you work with these people? God help them.
Lol @ hash addicts
Cannabis is a gateway drug which not always but can often lead to the use of heavier class A drugs. By inhibiting the gateway drug they are still lessening the impact and demand for class A drugs. ‘nipping it in the bud’ as such.
Good work again by Customs and police.
I hope they throw away the key.
Great news.. will hopefully drive up the price for all the stoners.
thats a lot of peoples medicine gone down the drain :(
Ah Jesus, my 3 million spot is gone. My weekend is ruined
The two Irish are a couple who are very well known in the Cork city chattering classes brigade. Your man has a penchant for fast expensive cars. Now everyone knows how he could afford them.
bussted
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