Gambling and marijuana are both illegal in Georgia, but it doesn’t always seem that way.
Watching almost any major sporting event in 2025, you’re met with a barrage of sports gambling advertisements, gambling website-sponsored segments and announcers discussing their parlays. Walking into a Georgia frat house, you are likely to see students absorbed in a game, gambling on their phones and using VPNs to disguise their location to avoid Georgia law.
At many Georgia vape shops and gas stations, you will encounter some variation or form of cannabis available — a new attempt to skirt the laws, a confusing combination of numbers and letters labeled Delta 8, 9, 10, 11 and so on. These products are just genetically modified cannabis with a similar effect, derivatives that are often poorly regulated.
