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Should Steroids Be Legal?

Posted by Shawn

If we think of countries where steroids are legal, like in Mexico, we might think that people will probably be dying every day from steroid abuse. But the problem is that despite the fact that a 15-year-old kid can walk into a pharmacy and buy a preloaded ready-jects of Deca or Sustanon 250 like it was just pink sugar cookies.

In Mexico there are no news reports about people dying from steroids. No teens are suddenly committing suicide. Sports games are not packed full of cheaters and malfeasance. Parent groups don't demand stricter legislation. There's nobody blaming juiced up professional athletes for alleged steroid-induced suicides.

Meanwhile, In America....ALL steroids are serious Schedule III drugs, and where there are congressmen who have declared it a "national public health crisis" because there are simply too many livers rotting, kidneys failing, cancer is now rampant and teenagers are now hanging themselves.

The American media has painstakingly given steroids a glowing report on one hand, reporting it to be close to a miracle cure in treating muscle-wasting diseases, or hypogonadism, or burn victims. They are now able to prolong life for an AIDS patient, they able to combat aging, burn fat and build muscle and actually increase the performance when playing on a sports field as well as in the bedroom.

It all depends on your own point of view, it was our own US government that decided to label steroids with the skull and crossbones, making it an outlaw to possess, import, use or sell them. But the point is that these hormones are produced by our own bodies.

Steroids are just as bad as swallowing a bottle of Vitamin C or Tylenol, or the same as drinking 3 gallons of water. The irony is that if you inject a full vial of a 10 cc of testosterone you may get a headache. If you then inject a whole bottle of testosterone when you wake up in the morning, you'll probably add another 15 pounds to your bench-press, your bad cholesterol will probably go up just a little, and you'll probably be holding a little water, but you won't die.

But the law is clear because in America today you can actually get up to a 5 million dollars fine for selling testosterone. As strange as it sounds something that is made by our own bodies carries the same classification as amphetamines, opiates, methamphetamines, and morphine.

Despite the fact no other type of steroids elicits any known mind-altering or euphoric affects or impairment. It has been 25 years since president Bush signed the steroid law into practice but still the making of illegal steroids is only going to get worse as we move forward.

Below is the list of criteria that was published by The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The list of factors as well as the characteristics held by each substance needs to be scheduled and considered very dangerous: Its relative or actual potential for abuse.

Proven scientific evidence showing its pharmacological effect.

The current scientific knowledge on the drug.

History or current abuse.

The scope, the duration, and the significance of the abuse.

What, if any, risk to the public health.

Is any psychic or any physiological dependence liability?

Whether the substance listed is already an immediate precursor of a substance already controlled under this title.

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