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Originally posted by punkworld
Steroids being legal would mean more research into performance-enhancing steroids, and thus you'll still get a new top level of the latest and greatest steroids. Obviously, pharmaceutical concerns will ask craploads of money for their best stuff.
Steroids can NOT be compared to alcohol, tobacco, weed, coke, etc, because the goal behind using them is completely different - and because of that, the effects of prohibition are completely different.
Steroid use for professional athletes easily lends itself to a rational cost/benefit alalysis. It's a gains versus risks thing, and if risks are big (prohibition, testing, etc) less people will use them.
Substances used for pleasure, on the other hand, fall outside of simple cost/benefits analysis, because "pleasure" is too vague a concept.
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Sure, there would be better gear, and probably safer gear too. I'm sure there will also be huge FDA warnings all over the boxes they came in, but that's how it is with all things that are potentially dangerous.
It still makes sense that usage wouldn't increase with legalization. If it did, it probably wouldn't increase much. Why would someone start using something that they know little to nothing about? I may or may not be one of those who did use (assuming a transdermal were offered, which probably would be the case), I haven't decided, nor do I expect I will for a while.
The truly ridiculous thing, is that the fed is going on this anti-prohormone rampage. They're banning at least one prohormone every session. They're talking about banning creatine, the safest supplement ever put on the market and they want to ban it. This whole cycle of misinformation and banning is simply out of hand and it's freakin ridiculous.
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