Legalization of Anabolic Steroids in the US

[SeymourCuts]

From a purely moral/ethical/philosophical standpoint, I see no reason they should not be legal OTC with warnings and sources of education and instruction being available. The people who choose to ignore the warnings and available education proceeding to abuse rather than safely use should be left to experience the consequences of their own stupidity with no legal footing to sue from. This has a cleansing effect on society. On one hand, other people see the consequences that they had to go through as a result of their stupidity and subsequently become more mindful of their own choices. On another hand, it can potentially rid these people from the broader gene pool. And finally, if they kill themselves off through their own willful stupidity, other people are protected from potentially stupid choices with more far-reaching direct impact. Example scenario: he dies on the floor of his bathroom because he decided not to asperate like he was told. Another example: he decides a 12 week stack of high doses of Halo and A-Bombs is a great first cycle, and proceeds to kick the bucket due to liver failure. One of many possible example scenarios that was then avoided: he leaves the bar after a number of shots, hops in his car and proceeds to take out himself along with a mother and her young children in another car.

Of course then there's the vain, selfish side of me that likes standing out from the crowd to some extent, but recognizes that living in an extremely looks/image-centric country with the highest average discretionary income levels of anywhere and where cosmetic surgeons make more than just about anyone, the probability of a currently above-average looking male body becoming a dime a dozen is high. He doesn't like the idea of them being legal.

 

[me2dammit]

LOL

LOL Funny stuff.

 

[kenpolifter]

Ya know it's funny. the media can sit here and bash steroid use and yet more people die each year from lawn mower accidents , lightning strikes and a bunch more individual stats than steroid use over the last 20 years. help me with this one.

 

[Tricepratus]

still keep it illegal but lessen the penalties for ex. getting caught witha small amount of weed? instead of getting popped for a few vials and tabs and spend time in a federal prison

I am with you liquidmuscle. No penalties for small, personal use AAS. If AAS became legal, there isn´t black market and I can´t doing b...... ( Sorry, american brothers)

 

[MSE-OP ARMY]

1. Make the penalty less severe... take off the sheduleIII list.
2. If it were to be legal, make people have to get educated, take classes and have to get some sort of license.

a license would deffently be a great idea but a huge penelty for getting them for minors

 

[beachhead06]

still keep it illegal but lessen the penalties for ex. getting caught with a small amount of weed? instead of getting popped for a few vials and tabs and spend time in a federal prison

I agree. Steroids should not be on the schedule III list, but still illegal.

By keeping them illegal but off the schedule III list users have no ground to sue if they harm themselves through abuse, and it prevents lazy people who don't diet, and train hard from trying to use steroids as a short cut...

 

[*The_West*]

possesion of steroids for personal use is not illegal in england, we have no problems with steroid abuse.

 

[beachhead06]

Re: hell

Its OK to have hair transplants, fake tits, fake nails, plastic surgery, transexual surgery, but take something to build muscles other then the snake oils supplements and you are scum of the earth.

I didn't agree with the whole post BUT this part I did agree with whole heartily

 

[Strategus]

Some should be legal, probably by prescription.

In 1994, it was politicians who put them in the schedule of controlled substances. The AMA and DEA recommended against outlawing them.

More and more research is coming out that links low testosterone in men with metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and even strokes.

 

[tha joker]

Re: POLL: Legalization of AAS in US

I do not agree with some of the laws regarding the possession of "performance enhancing drugs". Any doctor would tell you that the risk involved with anabolic steroids being used by a healthy adult male are minimal and within acceptable ranges. The only common negative side effect that responsible adult male steriod users may have to accept is acne and male pattern baldness. I remember when I was younger literature and television was plastered with terrifying stories of "roid rage", men with shrunken testicles, or gynocomastia. I have yet to meet one responsible healthy adult that CHOOSES to use anabolic steroids and suffers from any of these non-fact based hypes.