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Originally posted by CET
1. That ensures that only the wealthies athletes will be competitive.
2. Legalization does not necessarily mean increased usage. That is one of the main arugments for all prohibition groups, and I have never come across an example of it being proven true in history.
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1. If steroids were made legal and were allowed in sports, the wealthiest athletes would still be able to get the best steroids.
2. You can't compare steroids to stuff like alcohol, tobacco, etc. They're completely different things. A better comparison would be the one to medicins. Does the usage of medicins increase if they are approved by the FDA and are made easy to come by? Hell yeah.
Right now, many very effective steroids aren't being used by professional athletes because they're easy to detect. If steroids are allowed, they'll start using those.
Prohibition and testing place very severe limits on what athletes can do without risking their careers. Remove those limits, and obviously some people will go beyond them - and because of what steroids are, they'll be the ones dominating sports.