Due to the vulnerability of Gambling Addicts, drug bosses throughout the world find it easy to recruit these people as drug traffickers. With an estimated 51% of people arrested for growing commercial amounts of narcotic plants over the last five years, one-fifth of these people have had gambling problems, according to the study compiled by the Sentencing Advisory Council.
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Gambling Addicts Being Targeted
What happens is that the organisers of “commercial-scale marijuana cultivation” focus on finding people with outstanding gambling debts, they then offer to pay their debts in exchange for “crop sitting”.This phenomenon has now reached Victoria and people need to be made aware of the issue.
The issue with this is that Police are only catching the low-level sitters, and are not managing to get hold of the bigger fishes. Anyone caught crop sitting will receive a two-year sentence in prison and three years for the principals.
“Sadly, in trying to get out of their debt troubles, such gamblers end up in more serious trouble, being jailed for serious drug cultivation offences.” – Prof Freiberg
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Gambling Addiction
If you suffer from problem gambling or gambling addiction, it would be a good idea to take a look at our problem gambling guide. It will provide you with useful advice on how to tackle the problem and deal with it in a healthy and responsible way. The best possible way to start is to identify the symptoms and further, admit that you have a gambling problem.
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