More Americans are now in favor of legalized sports betting despite their worries about the effects of gambling on individuals and families.

A poll conducted by the Farleigh Dickinson University PublicMind showed that nearly three out of five Americans or 48 percent supports legalized sports betting simply because many people are already engaged in the gambling platform.

Out of the 1,019 adults surveyed by the pollster nationwide, 39 percent are opposed to plans to change the federal law to make sports betting legal throughout the country. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

“Betting on sports does not have an access issue for anyone in the United States,” Donald Hoover, senior lecturer at the university’s International School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, said, according to the Seattle Times. “Most of the sports betting in the U.S. is fairly easy to do, but happens in the shadows and in violation of federal law.”