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Originally posted by punkworld
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.
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Steroids being legal would be cheaper. Right now, more expensive doesn't mean more effective, it means less easily detectable.
Steroids certainly can be compared to alcohol and tobacco. Tobacco offers no good effects, only dangerous and deadly effects. Alcohol does little more then relax an individual, and red wine on occasion might make your arteries a little cleaner. Outside of that, alcohol offers no positive effects, only dangerous and deadly ones. More alcohol or tobacco related deaths occur in one day then with steroids in a year, or even an entire decade.
I'm sure there will be a couple of nut jobs that will think "more is always better", but that's the case anyway. The only difference is the stigma we'll attach to using gear and maybe athletes can get good supervision, or even someone getting a bad reaction will be able to fearlessly get the treatment they need. How many people die from illegal drugs every year simply because their friends are too scared to take them to the emergency room?
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