The last thing our sub-culture needs is attention. Mainly because any attention will likely be negative attention. If you want to be left alone then the best thing to do is to pretend that gear is not a problem and hope that the media will get over the whole anti-steroid fad. This coverage should only be picked up again towards the Olympics so keep us under wraps.

Remember that law enforcement is a slave to public opinion and if the public forgets about gear and focuses on illicit drugs, we are better off.

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Originally posted by Swollen:
Although I agree with you on many things, I disagree with you on this. Keeping quiet might be good, but while juicers are being quiet (juicers are those who truely know what they are talking about) the media and negative sources of information get the stage to themselves, giving them the opportunity to form the minds of impressionable idiots. I believe that is why steroids have such a negative connotation in the first place. No one has really publicly stepped up and said hey "400,000 people die a year from smoking. That is more than anyone has EVER died from using steroids." I myself have put steroids in class speeches, essays and discussions. Those classmates HAD a "steroids is cheating, steroids are bad" mind frame until I educated them. We need to be as strong as the forces working against us.

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oops for some reason my post didn't show up.

anyway, what i said was that I agreed with you 100%. And keeping our mouths shut, while it was keep us out of the spot light, and keep on a low profile, at the same time, by keeping our mouths shut and not doing anything when people spread BS about roids, is the same exact reason they were illegalized to begin with.

If more people would take a stand, and tell the Gov. how much BS they are, we could eventually take back our country, maybe I am living in fantasy world, and maybe everything I feel/believe in is a little out there, but everyday when we keep our mouths shut, its just making us more and moer criminals.

Instead of being controlled by the government, lets take back our gov., we put these people in office, we can take them out.

=) Like I said, maybe I am living in fantasy world, but at least I'm happy in there hehe.

JW

You will not make a dent in what the media says about steroids. It is naive to beleive that you can change people's views without the power of the masses or with powerful forces behind you.

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Originally posted by 2Thick:
[BYou will not make a dent in what the media says about steroids. It is naive to beleive that you can change people's views without the power of the masses or with powerful forces behind you.
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well that is true, it doesn't help much by turning the cheek either.

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Originally posted by Fonz:
2Thick, Karl Marx was the inventor of communism.
You suggesting something?

Godspeed

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He was referring to the evils of capitalism.

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Ike

But even as prosecutions increased, Congress was growing particularly concerned with steroid use among high school students and among top amateur athletes. Certain members representing only a small minority of the medical community began suggesting controlled substance status for anabolic steroids. See, W.N. Taylor, M.D., "Synthetic Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids: A Plea for Controlled Substance Status," The Physician and Sportsmedicine (Vol. 15, Number 5, May 1987). Between 1988 and 1990, Congressional hearings were held to determine whether the Controlled Substances Act should be amended to include anabolic steroids along with more serious drugs like cocaine and heroin. The majority of witnesses who testified, including medical professionals and representatives of regulatory agencies (including the FDA, the DEA and the National Institute on Drug Abuse) recommended against the proposed amendment to the law. Even the American Medical Association repeatedly and vehemently opposed it, maintaining that steroid abuse does not lead to the physical or psychological dependence required for scheduling under the Controlled Substances Act. (The AMA recommended education, not criminalization, to combat steroid abuse.) Nevertheless, Congress scheduled steroids as Schedule III controlled substances under Title 21 of the United States Code, which regulates Food and Drugs. The legislation was called the "Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990," Pub. L. No. 101-647, Sec. 1902, 104 Stat. 4851 (1990) (amending 21 U.S.C. 812(c) (1981) to include anabolic steroids). Why did Congress ignore these experts and decide to schedule steroids as Schedule III controlled substances?

The focus of the hearings suggests that any "psychologically addictive" properties of anabolic steroids were secondary considerations to Congress. The majority of witnesses who testified at the hearings leading to the legislation were representatives from either amateur or professional athletics. The testimony, and apparently Congress' main concern, focused on legislative action in an effort to solve an athletic "cheating" problem. Congress had a solution in mind - amending the Controlled Substances Act - and planned to proceed with or without the blessing of the DEA or the medical community. As a result, steroids stand out as an anomaly among the codeine derivatives, central nervous system depressants, and stimulants that form the rest of the Schedule III substances.

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"It's a good day to be alive, sir, It's a good day to be alive he said..."

I like your analogy.

Bojackson3434,

Thanks for the info from steroidlaw.com

Swollen,

You first need to admit that you do steroids to defend them effectively. I think most people aren�t ready to deal with the stigma attached to steroid use and martyr themselves for a cause, which might not change in their lifetime.

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