(Jamma) They are few, but they have a common denominator: tolerance towards behaviors that in themselves do no harm to anyone, but the need to regulate a market without imposing bans that risk being counterproductive and, at the same time, to intervene on the negative consequences, i.e. the gambling disease and the risk of squandering one's assets.
Luca Gibillini, municipal councilor of Sinistra ecologia e libertà, declares himself an antiprohibitionist, declaring that "it is not easy to face the issue with serenity, balancing between social protection and antiprohibitionism". According to Gibillini it is necessary "not to get carried away by impulse and concern and react with horizontal bans, never positive". He gets many comments against his idea of him, but explains: “I am against the bans but to face the damage caused. I wouldn't ban pasta to avoid obesity”. And he underlines that the horizontal ban "creates a worse illegal market, which enriches the uncontrolled mafias".
On the same wavelength we find Yuri Guaiana, vice president of zone 2 of the Radicals. Guaiana, who is president of the trade commission, dedicated some commission sessions to arcades, entitled "between addiction and anti-prohibition". According to Guaiana “gambling can be addictive with serious health risks. The solution cannot be the prohibitionist one but that of information and controls on infiltrations”. The Radical exponent says he agrees on the incentives for bars that do not install slot machines and indicates a possible way forward: "Identify places where these activities can be concentrated, to be kept in the open without giving away another lucrative market to organized crime".
