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[QUOTE="BelgoSuisse, post: 1460684, member: 30299"]
The marijuana analogy may not be as good as you think. In some European countries like the Netherlands or Belgium, marijuana is legal. In other like France - a direct neighbor of Belgium and pretty close culturally - it's absolutely illegal. But France nevertheless has much higher consumption of marijuana per inhabitant than it's northern neighbors.

France is also an interesting test market for poker since online poker was just recently legalized here. It means that on June 10th (*) we'll suddenly get cut off from the rest of the world unless we play on illegal rooms like FT or UB, but at the same time legal rooms will get the right to advertise as much as they want for a local online poker market. Whether the influx of local fishes will compensate the increase in rake due to taxes and the lack of access to foreign fishes will be an interesting experiment.

(*) sports gambling is getting legal at the same time as online poker, and it was quite important that licenses get issued before the start of the football world cup on June 11th.
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