Its ridiculous for our state to say that gambling is illegal when they..the state sanctions gambling through its participation in lottery and scratch-off tickets.The NC Lottery homepage gives the odds of winning a jackpot in 1 in 175,223,510....not to good! I can assure you that the odds of winning at a video poker machine are nowhere even remotely that high! Yet they say that gambling preys on peoples hard earned money...and they..the state spends thousands of dollars advertising lotto jackpots to entice people to play a game that has those kind of odds...Really?