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re: Why are steroids illegal?
Posted on 3/2/24 at 12:46 pm to Rohan Gravy
Posted on 3/2/24 at 12:46 pm to Rohan Gravy
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I AM NOT ON frickING STEROIDS
Posted on 3/2/24 at 12:48 pm to captdalton
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he same reason a lot of drugs are illegal. They hurt the user. They can kill the user. They increase the odds that the user will hurt others
If that were the reason, then alcohol would also be illegal.
They are illegal because they can be easily synthesized in a homemade lab and made untaxable. Uncle Sam wants his money.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 12:50 pm to Rohan Gravy
A drug that increases aggression for an aggressive sport with aggressive young men for which “a little more” could be the difference between a walk on and a scholarship. Would be a terrible thing to do to the young men.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 12:51 pm to captdalton
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We saw what they did to MLB
An all time increased fan interest in the game and viewership numbers at an all time high? Sounds horrible.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 1:05 pm to Rohan Gravy
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I get that they are against the rules.
But why illegal
They aren't.
I've been taking steroids every other week with my chemotherapy for the last 8 months.
It is illegal to take without a prescription, but that's true of most medicines. Very few are in fact over the counter.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 1:16 pm to Rohan Gravy
Chronic and more acute health issues exist from steroid use. Orals very toxic for the liver. Heart, blood pressure, kidney issues. Infertility. Abuse issues. List goes on and on. Under direct physician supervision, labs, proper nutrition, it’s possible to take a bunch of steroids but just giving young athletes gear is recipe for disaster.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 1:27 pm to Rohan Gravy
Because they shrink your gonads to rasins?
Posted on 3/2/24 at 2:26 pm to IamNotaRobot
This. You can take a cycle here and there and have no health implications but without expertise and medical guidance young kids will frick up and hurt themselves.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 11:27 am to B_dub
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Because you touch yourself at night.
And in the morning
Posted on 3/3/24 at 12:23 pm to GatorOnAnIsland
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Hence, the tiny balls.
Thank you Gator
Your response is the most comprehensive explanation
Posted on 3/3/24 at 12:52 pm to Rohan Gravy
Steroid use has been shown to change physiological cardiac remodeling of athletes to pathophysiological cardiac hypertrophy with an increased risk of life-threatening arrhythmias.
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Posted on 3/3/24 at 12:55 pm to Warwick
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theyre illegal, like most illicit substances, because they can be homemade and the govt doesnt like not getting their cut.
Homemade steroid sounds like a brilliant idea! Give them to your friends too. Not a bad way to thin the herd. Just don't make the government pay for you inevitable trip you will make to the ER.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 1:13 pm to Rohan Gravy
Because they haven't created a tax bracket for them. I say be the best version of athlete you can be. If snorting a line before you go in for a series is a thing then do it.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 1:13 pm to Rohan Gravy
"Steroids" is kind of a vague catch-all. There are lots of things that are useful in recovering from injury that should be legal. (Although one should still have to test clean before returning to an active roster.)
Posted on 3/3/24 at 1:31 pm to Rohan Gravy
Pretty irrelevant now with HGH etc
Posted on 3/3/24 at 1:37 pm to shinerfan
Steroids like cortisone are useful medicine for allergies, chronic inflammation crohns etc and are prescribed.
Anabolic steroids are a different critter.
Anabolic steroids are a different critter.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 3:01 pm to JayAg
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I wish they were legal just to see what professional sports morphs into. We’d have 280 lbs players with 3% body fat running 4.5’s.
And having an average lifespan of about 50, mainly due to heart failures and suicides.
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With that “logic”, then alcohol should be banned.
I don't think alcohol enhances athletic perfomance, atleast not that I'm aware. Confidence, yes. Performance, no....
This post was edited on 3/3/24 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 3/3/24 at 3:10 pm to TutHillTiger
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They aren't.
I've been taking steroids every other week with my chemotherapy for the last 8 months.
It is illegal to take without a prescription
By this measure, cocaine and heroin are "not illegal" but we all know this means scheduled drugs without a prescription.
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Pretty irrelevant now with HGH etc
Completely different animals. HGH is mildly anabolic compared to androgens.
This post was edited on 3/3/24 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 3/3/24 at 3:10 pm to captdalton
quote:That all sounds like a choice for the user to make. If they made alot of things illegal (that aren't now and are bad for the user) then people would go to extremes to get them and lead to crimes and all just the same. As for roid rage, drunks beating on people is a real thing too.
The same reason a lot of drugs are illegal. They hurt the user. They can kill the user.
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