RESEARCH ARTICLES Gambling in California Roger Dunstan Author, California Research Bureau January 01, 1997 - Sacramento, CA Download complete research article In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States. The Commission began its report with the above statement and it is appropriate for this report. While the statement is merely the opinion of the Commission and cannot be easily proven, it is easy to understand how they formed their opinion. If you read the history section of this report, you will see that the popularity of legal gambling has waxed and waned, but has never disappeared. Illegal gambling, although we are ignorant about the full extent of it, has shown remarkable endurance. One industry observer noted, "There is a public demand to gamble, but there is no public demand for legalized gambling."1 The acceptance of gambling today can be seen by the substantial numbers of players of the various state lotteries and similar illegal games. Download the PDF to read the entire 130 page report.